A Wiener Werkstätte white painted Chair, from the Berlin apartment of Dr. Jerome and Margaret Stonborough, the design attributed to Josef Hoffmann, solid flared seat, angled flared back with square section uprights extending down to form rear legs, joined to the front with floor level stretchers, c.1904

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A Wiener Werkstätte white painted Chair, from the Berlin apartment of Dr. Jerome and Margaret Stonborough, the design attributed to Josef Hoffmann, solid flared seat, angled flared back with square section uprights extending down to form rear legs, joined to the front with floor level stretchers, c.1904

Provenance

Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, thence by descent, until the late 1980s

Lot Essay

The archives of the Museum für angewandte Kunstin Vienna record photographs of the Berlin apartment showing this chair in situ. The attribution to Josef Hoffmann, rather than Koloman Moser has been suggested by Dr. Christian Witt-Dörring of the MAK, and we are grateful to him for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Compare with similar chairs designed by Hoffmann illustrated:
Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, 1910, p.398/9
Werner J. Schweiger, Wiener Werkstätte, Design in Vienna 1903-1932, London 1984, p.50, (1905/6)
Vera Behal, Möbel des Jugendstil, Munich 1981, p.163, pl.114, (1907/8)

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