JOSEF HOFFMANN & KOLOMAN MOSER "Zwei Armlehnstühle und Tisch Modell Purkersdorf" 80er. Jahre

JOSEF HOFFMANN & KOLOMAN MOSER ‘Two armchairs and table, Purkersdorf model’ 1980s.
Designed in 1904. Manufactured by Wittmann, Austria. White lacquered wood, elastic straps and fabric. Chairs: 86 x 60.5 x 62.5 cm. Table: 72 x 70 x 70 cm. All parts marked with a plaque on the underside. Signs of age, minor scratches.
In 1904, the Wiener Werkstätte, founded by Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Fritz Waerndorfer, received what was probably its most prominent major commission – the interior design of the Purkersdorf Sanatorium. Industrialist Viktor Zuckerkandl commissioned Hoffmann to design a building ‘between a modern hotel and a modern sanatorium,’ which would soon become a meeting place for Viennese society. Committed to the idea of a Gesamtkunstwerk, the furnishings were designed to correspond with the simple elegance of the architecture. Koloman Moser's cubic armchair with white lacquered vertical struts and a checkerboard-patterned wicker seat was originally designed for the Klimt exhibition at the Vienna Secession in 1903, but ultimately became the central seating furniture in the sanatorium's entrance hall. Today, the minimalist ‘Purkersdorf armchair’, which seeks dialogue with Hoffmann's unadorned architecture, is one of the design icons of Viennese Modernism.
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