Josef Hoffmann

PIANO STOOL

Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Date 1908

Period 20th century

Origin Vienna

Medium cherry veneer on coniferous wood, solid beach

Dimension 46 x 42 cm (18¹/₈ x 16¹/₂ inches)

JOSEF HOFFMANN
WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

Designed by: Josef Hoffmann, Vienna, around 1908
Executed by: Wiener Werkstätte

Hoffmann varied this piano stool a number of times, e.g. for the music room in the apartment of Dr Guido Hamburger, Vienna, and Dr Hermann Wittgenstein. In the latter case, it was in oak, stained black with white chalk in the pores.

Date: 1908

Period: 20th century

Origin: Vienna

Medium: cherry veneer on coniferous wood, solid beach

Dimension: 46 x 42 cm (18¹/₈ x 16¹/₂ inches)

Literature: a contemporary photograph is preserved in the Wiener Werkstätte archives at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, inv. no. WWF 105-252-1; MAK Vienna, 1987, Josef Hoffmann, Ornament zwischen Hoffnung und Verbrechen, p. 58, no. 2

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Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Viennese Jugendstil, Secessionist Movement

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