table

• Table from Furniture for Dr. Hermann Wittgenstein’s Residence

• furniture and woodwork collection

• design: Josef Hoffmann, Vienna, about 1905
• execution: Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, about 1905
• client / customer: Hermann Wittgenstein, Vienna, about 1905

• Jugendstil,
• Modern,

• Eichenholz,
• massiv und furniert,
• schwarz gebeizt,
• poliert und pigmentiet (in die Poren weiße Farbe eingerieben); Marmor,

• height: 66 cm
• width: 110 cm
• depth: 66 cm

• H 2082

• purchase, 1966

• Furniture and Woodwork Collection

• WW Entwurf Nr. (reverse side) : WWF 101, S 46

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)

currently on loan

• table, Table from Furniture for Dr. Hermann Wittgenstein’s Residence, Josef Hoffmann, MAK Inv.nr. H 2082

• https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/table-from-furniture-for-dr-hermann-wittgensteins-residence_185437

• 06.12.2024