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Title
- Table from Furniture for Dr. Hermann Wittgenstein’s Residence
Collection
Production
- design: Josef Hoffmann, Vienna, about 1905
- execution: Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, about 1905
- client / customer: Hermann Wittgenstein, Vienna, about 1905
Period | Style | School
Material | Technique
- Eichenholz
- , massiv und furniert
- , schwarz gebeizt
- , poliert und pigmentiet (in die Poren weiße Farbe eingerieben); Marmor
Measurements
- height: 66 cm
- width: 110 cm
- depth: 66 cm
Inventory number
- H 2082
Acquisition
- purchase, 1966
Department
- Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Inscriptions
- (reverse side) :
Description
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With his 1905 coffee table for Hermann Wittgenstein’s apartment, Josef Hoffmann distanced himself markedly from the conventional table shapes of his day: the arrangement of the item’s substructure is strictly stereometric and is based on the threedimensional representation of a rhomboid. In this structure, the legs serve as vertical corner edges, the connecting “spokes” on the floor as intersecting axes. In contrast, the oval tabletop forms a shallow bowl with a solid edge that is grooved on the inside; a square slab of black marble is inlaid in the center. The black stained oak still reveals traces of white pigment, which would originally have been rubbed into the pores of the wood.
(Hackenschmidt, Sebastian)
Exhibition
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table, Table from Furniture for Dr. Hermann Wittgenstein’s Residence, Josef Hoffmann, MAK Inv.nr. H 2082
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https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/table-from-furniture-for-dr-hermann-wittgensteins-residence_185437
Last update
- 27.09.2024
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