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Stool for the Stonborough-Wittgenstein Apartment in Berlin, 1905
Stool for the Stonborough-Wittgenstein Apartment in Berlin
1905
Beech, white setting, original fabric cover “Lange Ohren” (designed by Josef Hoffmann, 1902)
47×42×42 cm
Artists
- Wiener Werkstätte
- Josef Hoffmann
(Pirnitz/Brtnice 1870–1956 Vienna)
Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Coming from a Viennese industrialist family, Margarete Wittgenstein (1882–1958) married the New York factory owner Jerome Stonborough (1873–1938) and moved to Berlin with him. The interior decoration of the newlyweds’ apartment was done by Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) und Koloman Moser (1868–1918). Hoffmann created the furnishings for the dining, gentlemen’s, guest, and servant’s rooms, the last-mentioned being the one for which this white stool reduced to a cubic shape probably was intended. Notwithstanding the simplicity of the cubiform body, the alternation of squares standing on a corner and semicircles as braces to stabilize the construction makes for a slightly playful effect.
Object data
- Artist/author
- Execution: Wiener Werkstätte
- Josef Hoffmann
- Title
- Stool for the Stonborough-Wittgenstein Apartment in Berlin
- Date
- 1905
- Art movement
- Wiener Werkstätte
- Category
- Furniture
- Material/technique
- Beech, white setting, original fabric cover “Lange Ohren” (designed by Josef Hoffmann, 1902)
- Dimensions
- 47×42×42 cm
- Credit line
- Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 4208
- Inventory access
- Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
- Selection of Reference works
- Eduard F. Sekler: Josef Hoffmann. Das architektonische Werk: Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Salzburg/Wien 1982.
- Catalogue raisonne
- Sekler 1986: 97
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