COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
MIA_.91.60
AMICA Library Year:
1998
Object Type:
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Creator Name:
Hoffmann, Josef
Creator Nationality:
European; Central European; Austrian
Creator Role:
designer
Creator Dates/Places:
1870 - 1956
Gender:
M
Creator Name-CRT:
Josef Hoffmann
Creator Name:
Wiener Werkstätte
Creator Nationality:
European; Central European; Austrian
Creator Role:
manufacturer
Creator Name-CRT:
Wiener Werkstätte
Title:
Table
View:
Front
Creation Date:
about 1903 - 1904
Creation Start Date:
1903
Creation End Date:
1904
Materials and Techniques:
solid oak wood and oak wood veneer, black satin, white paint, polished boxwood inlay, white metal
Classification Term:
Furniture
Creation Place:
Vienna
Dimensions:
H.30 x W.24-3/4 x D.24-3/4 in.
Component Measured:
overall
Measurement Unit:
in
AMICA Contributor:
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location:
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number:
91.60
Credit Line:
The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
Context:
Josef Hoffmann designed this table for the Vienna home of Broncia and Hugo Koller shortly after organizing the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903. Hoffmann and Koloman Moser (1868-1918) collaborated on the home's interior design, and Mrs. Koller was a frequent shopper at the Wiener Werkstätte. The reductive geometric lines, varying thicknesses of wood, and tapering elements represent the beginning of twentieth-century modernist furniture form.
Related Image Identifier Link:
MIA_.2732c.tif
