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Stool for the Stonborough-Wittgenstein Apartment in Berlin, 1905

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Beech, white setting, original fabric cover “Lange Ohren” (designed by Josef Hoffmann, 1902)
47×42×42 cm

Artists

  • Wiener Werkstätte
  • Josef Hoffmann

    (Pirnitz 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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Provenance

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