Josef Hoffmann: Furniture, Design and Objects
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Book Description
Josef Hoffmann: Furniture, Designs and Objects provides a comprehensive look at the designs for furniture, decorative objects, and printed material that cult designer Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, 1870-1956) created for the interiors of his visionary buildings. The book shows how Hoffmann produced a sense of aesthetic unity in his built environments by balancing bold formal innovation with simple yet elegant geometric and organic motifs.
Hoffmann was among the first architect-designers to apply the concept of Gesamtkuntswerk, (the effort to produce a "total work of art") to his field. Along with the painter Gustav Klimt-a major collaborator and influence-Hoffmann was a founding member of the Viennese Secession. He went on to establish the Wiener Werkstätte with Koloman Moser in 1903, a commercial design workshop that successfully blurred the distinctions between fine and decorative art.
From the Publisher
Josef Hoffmann is among the most important architects to have spanned the major movements of emerging 20th-century modernism. Although his early work can be closely identified with Jugendstil and Art Nouveau, his later designs presage the mature functionalism of the Bauhaus. By presenting images of his designs for furniture, decorative objects and printed material, this book allows the reader to enter the finely detailed universe of Hoffmann's world.
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