A Suite of white painted Garden Furniture, designed by Josef Hoffmann,, comprising two large Benches, a pair of Armchairs ensuite, and a pair of Tables, the latter with characteristic large scale open lattice stretchers, c.1902/4

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A Suite of white painted Garden Furniture, designed by Josef Hoffmann,, comprising two large Benches, a pair of Armchairs ensuite, and a pair of Tables, the latter with characteristic large scale open lattice stretchers, c.1902/4
Bench: 258cm. wide
Table: 75.5cm. high, 130cm. wide, 46cm. deep
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Provenance

Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, thence by descent, until c.1988

Lot Essay

This furniture was used by Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein at the Villa Toscana, Gmunden, but was probably acquired at the time of creation of the Berlin apartment or shortly thereafter. See footnote to lot 76.
Compare with white painted furniture designed by Hoffmann, and employing similar oversized lattice motif, illustrated: Das Interieur, Vol 4, 1903, reproduced Vera Behal. Mobel des Jugenstils, Munich, 1981, p.132

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