chair

• Chair Model No. 322 for the Dining Room of the Westend Sanatorium
• Sessel Modell Nr. 322 (model number)

• furniture and woodwork collection

• design: Josef Hoffmann, Vienna, 1903 - 1904
• execution: J. & J. Kohn, Vsetín, 1904

• Bugholzmöbel

• Buchenholz,
• z.T. gebogen,
• politiert und hellbraun gebeizt; Sperrholz,
• gelocht; Polsterung mit Wachsleinwandbezug,

• height: 99 cm
• width: 46 cm
• depth: 43 cm
• seat height: 45 cm

• H 2189-2

• dedication, 1969

• Furniture and Woodwork Collection

• photograph, Speisesaal, erster Stock, Sanatorium Purkersdorf, NÖ, Wiener Straße 74
• photograph, Speisesaal, erster Stock, Sanatorium Purkersdorf, NÖ, Wiener Straße 74
• photograph, Speisesaal, Veranda (gedeckte Terrasse), erster Stock, Sanatorium Purkersdorf, NÖ, Wiener Straße 74

• stamp (reverse side) : J & J. Kohn / Westin-Austria

It was with the construction of the Westend Sanatorium near Vienna in 1904/05 that Josef Hoffmann succeeded in realizing his first public building—and at this temporary residence for guests in search of healing, he gave rise to an entirely new spatial experience. The dining room’s slender, high-backed, dark-brown seating furniture, upholstered in wine-red oilcloth, contrasts with the white furnishing elements attached to the identically white walls, thus striking a balance between elements both vertical and horizontal and light and dark. At the same time as Hoffmann was doing his project, the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was furnishing an administrative building of the Larkin Company in the American industrial city of Buffalo with pieces of his own design, including the earliest metal office chairs. Like his Viennese colleague, Wright’s attention was not directed exclusively toward functional criteria when designing; his furniture, as an integral part of the building’s interior design, was much rather to be understood as part of a total work of art. (Hackenschmidt, Sebastian)

currently on loan

• chair, Chair Model No. 322 for the Dining Room of the Westend Sanatorium, Josef Hoffmann, MAK Inv.nr. H 2189-2

• https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/chair-model-no-322-for-the-dining-room-of-the-westend-sanatorium_187289

• 07.12.2024