Josef Hoffmann Furniture

Two Elegant Josef Hoffmann Chairs made by Manufactor Jacob & Josef Kohn. Early 20th-Century Armchairs in Great Gatsby Style. Crafted around 1910 Jugendstil , these armchairs r...

Set di due sedie modello "Fledermaus" (che significa "pipistrello" in tedesco), progettato dall'architetto e designer austriaco Josef Hoffmann nel 1907. Originariamente concepito per...

Set of six Josef Hoffmann chairs, circa 1925 This refined chair, part of a set of six attributed to Josef Hoffmann and dating to around 1925, showcases the architect’s unmistakable a...

Brass lamp lacquered or nickel-plated. Silk-shade comes in any color, white inside. All handmade. Optionally the bottom can be covered with a hardened opaline-glass in a brass-frame....

A fine porcelain covered sugar bowl (that doubles perfectly as a table box). In the Melone (pattern) designed by Josef Hoffmann in 1929. In white porcelain with gold highlights. B...

Frequently used by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser in their early works for the Wiener Werkstätte Most components according to the UL regulations, with an additional charge we will...

A stunning Haus Koller Armchair designed by Josef Hoffmann and produced by the esteemed Austrian manufacturer Wittmann. Originally conceived in 1911 for the Koller House in Oberwalte...

Iconic vintage Bauhaus black painted bentwood & cane Josef Hoffman Prague 811 armchairs imported by Stendig for Thonet, a set of 4. Beautiful condition, keeping in mind that these are vintage and not new so will have signs of use and wear even if it has been refinished or restored. Specifically, there have been a few small repairs in the caning of all chairs and one chair seat has been replaced completely. It has been replaced with sheet cane and not individually woven. Please see photos, zoom in for details, and see long description as they are part of the condition report. We attempt to portray any imperfections. Circa, Early to Mid-20th Century. Much like a fine wine or the Mona Lisa, some things just get better with age… That’s just a fact! Including these iconic vintage black painted bentwood & cane Josef Hoffman Prague 811 armchairs by Stendig for Thonet! Talk about the ability to withstand the hands of time!! This Josef Hoffman 811 chair was originally designed in 1925 but remains a current and fabulous design that is highly sought after today. This set of 4 is comprised of beautiful black painted bentwood frames bearing slender rounded arms, slightly flared legs, and marvelous natural cane seats AND backs!! SPECTACULAR!!! Can’t you just SEE these beauties surrounding your kitchen table, breakfast nook, game table, or simply used as extra seating in the family room? We certainly can! Just the right touch of Bauhaus magnificence to any room and they’re sure to complement your home with their classic, historical excellence, whatever your style whether its Bauhaus, Art Deco, Mid-Century Modern, or Modern!! Josef Hoffman was one of Austria's most important architects and designers and was central to the development of art and design in Vienna. He grew up with three sisters and was nicknamed Pepo. His father was the town mayor and a successful businessman. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, a radical anti-historicist movement, and together with Koloman Moser created the Wiener Werkstatte cooperative workshop. A highly individualistic architect and designer, Hoffmann's work combined the simplicity of craft production with a refined aesthetic ornament. Between 1901 and 1905, he designed four villas in Vienna and a sanatorium in Brussels that was called “Stoclet House”, for which he developed a “cubistic” language of form, with an emphasis on straight, unadorned lines. In 1905, he established the Kunstschau with painter Gustav Klimt and, two years later, founded the Deutscher Werkbund. Hoffmann worked well into his 80s, continuing to use the geometric motifs that influenced the art deco style of the 1920s. In 1928 his work appeared in the Art in Industry exhibition held at Macy’s in New York City, where it exerted a strong influence on American designer Donald Deskey. Hoffmann is one of the seminal figures in the modern decorative arts movement of the first half of the 20th century. Stendig was totally the brainchild and passion of Charles W. Stendig. You cannot write or talk about Stendig without explaining Charles. He was a pioneer of import goods in the mid-century. After serving in WWII as a paratrooper, he studied business with emphasis on international trade at NYU and City College of New York. Afterward first working for Raymor, another pioneering distribution company, for about two years, departing to start his own business: Stendig. He opened his first showroom in 1956 in midtown Manhattan. He is credited for sparking America’s interest in furniture from Finland, Switzerland, Italy, and Czechoslovakia. He imported from the likes of Thonet, Asko, and De Sede; and from iconic designers including Le Corbusier, Josef Hoffmann, Eero Aarnio, Tapio Wirkkala, Marcel Breuer, Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Carlo Mollino, Carlo Scarpa, and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni to name just a few. By the late 1960’s, Stendig had showrooms in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco with a large headquarters in NYC. They were exciting and good times but short lived. The business was a challenge and when an offer was made by Burlington Industries to purchase, Charles agreed. He stayed on till 1976 to oversee and then retired. I have searched the internet to no avail to find out if a Stendig division is still in operation. But I can only find the Stendig Calendar, the only calendar in MoMA’s collection, which was designed for Stendig by Mossimo Vignelli, still offered. But I am having a hard time deciding who is creating and offering it. I do know Burlington Industries was bankrupt by 2001, purchased in 2003, merged with Cone Mills in 2004 and subsequently into ITG or International Textile Group. But the Stendig name reins as an icon of high style mid-century offerings. Thonet was founded by Michael Thonet. Michael was born in 1796 and was apprenticed by his father to a cabinetmaker. Shortly after he married, Michael opened his one-man cabinetmaking shop creating furniture and cabinetry in the traditional manner by carving the needed parts and then joining them together. In 1830 he began experimenting with bending wood into curved shapes and thus began a successful furniture company that has remained continually in operation for nearly 200 years. Thonet’s early work was very Biedermeier in style and not made for the common man. Gradually his designs became more Art Nouveau. In 1951 his chairs for the Crystal Palace at the London World’s Fair won a prize medal and by the late 1950s he began to make his first “consumer” chair. In 1875, a year before Michael’s death, Thonet’s five factories made 620,000 chairs. Then in 1876 after his death the company became Gebruder Thonet. But all was not roses. In 1869 the Thonet patents lapsed and by 1893 there were 52 bentwood companies in Europe. However, Thonet persevered. They branched out. They merged. They added designs by Le Corbusier and Breuer and alternative materials such as tubular chrome in place of bentwood to their offerings. Business boomed and waned through the years and there was even a Thonet revival, so to speak, beginning in the 1940s on into the mid-20th century. Till today, in the 21st century, Thonet is still a furniture company to be reckoned with almost 200 years later. We are in love with this iconic set of 4 Prague 811 chairs...

Vintage Josef Hoffmann Fledermaus Chairs by WITTMANN. Ebony stain. Newly upholstered in Chiarastella Cattana Altheas. Authentic Aus...

A table light with Opaline glass shade, pictured in brass. Brass, optionally varnished or nickel-plated, all other surfaces on request, Opaline-glass, hand blown. Most components ac...

Rare No. 267 egg rocking chair designed by Josef Hoffmann in 1922 and produced in a limited run by Societa Anonima Antonio Volpe in Udine, Italy circ...

ppartement Jerome und Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, Berlin. Most components according to the UL regulations, with an additional charge we will UL-list and label our fixtures.  

Hanging- lamp from the showrooms of the Wiener Werkstaette used by Hoffmann in several variations. Hammered originally. Works-number M115, pattern-book of the Wiener Werkstaette: WWM...

The famous "Fledermaus Cabaret" in Vienna was build by many members of the Wiener Werkstaette by the time when working on the Stoclet Palais project Most components according to the...

Josef Hoffmann Dressing Table, model No. 1134 for J&J Kohn. Produced from 1905 under licence from one of Vienna's finest workshops.

Floor lamp made of teak, partly solid and partly veneered. The design is based on a floor lamp designed by Josef Hoffmann and produced by the Wiener Werkstätte, model name "Kandelab...

An extraordinary modern furniture from the best period of his works. He made trendsetting Industrial designs for the bentwood-industrie. This dressing-table is from the "Fledermaus" ...

Fledermaus Chair No.728 By Josef Hoffmann For Jacob & Josef Kohn Austria 1900s

Table-lamp, hammered brass-sheet, nickel-plated, other finishes are offered. The additional images shows the lamp in the background of a Wiener Werkstaette showroom enlightened. Avai...

In 1927, the apartment of Ernst Bauer in Vienna was renovated by Josef Hoffmann and other members of the Wiener Werkstaette: Maria Likarz, Dagobert Peche, Mathilde Floegel Material B...

A Circular Table from a Games Room at the Purkersdorf Sanatorium, designed by Josef Hoffmann, 1903, for the Purkersdorf Sanatorium, executed by the Wiener Werkstätte, oak, brown-stai...

Very early and important design by Josef Hoffmann for J&J Kohn; horseshoe-shaped stand, each with two spheres under the corner joints of the seat, beechwood, light stained, polis...

A very rare chair from the early stages of the Wiener Werkstätte. Variations were displayed at the Neustiftgasse showrooms of the Werkstatte and were also placed at the Brauner Mansi...

Flower-table from the very early phase of the Wiener Werkstatte, circa 1903-1905. Exhibition: Moderne Vergangenheit, Wien 1981, Nr. 253 sowie Titelabb.; Exhib.- Kat, Josef Hoffmann W...

Josef Hoffmann Chairs Prague 811 Slovenia 1950s

A beautifully preserved antique bentwood armchair designed by Josef Hoffmann, the seminal Viennese architect and co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte. This is the iconic Model 811, kn...

Rare labeled leather Kubus armchair, club chair, or lounge chair designed in 1910 by Austrian Vienna Secession designer Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956 Austria). Manufactured by Wittmann i...

Bigger version of the Josef Hoffmann fixture for the Steckelborg apartement, Villa Knips and for the Berta Zuckerkandl mansion.Custom size from ...

Great example from the early, puristic phase of Josef Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstaette. Brass varnished or nickel-plated optionally, other surfaces available. All components acc...

Single pendant often used by Josef Hoffmann as well as by Koloman Moser. We have the colored glasses in several versions and also the white opaline glasses. Length is custom made! Mo...

An icon of early modernist design, the Kubus sofa model “8020” stands among Josef Hoffmann’s most celebrated creations—an architectural composition of perfect cubes, conceived in 191...

Dining room and entrance hall of the Purkersdorf Sanatorium, hammered originally, can be manufactured hammered as well. Re edition, initially designed in 1903 All components accordi...

Pair of early 20th Century Josef Hoffman Fledermaus armchairs, constructed by Josef and Jacob Kohn of Austria. Newly upholstered in Josef Hoffmann designed linen fabric. The finish a...

A hand-hammered brass vase with dramatic vertical fluting and flared rim. Marked "WIENER WERK STÄTTE" with JH monogram and WW mark.

Original state with a pleasant patine of age, perfectly cleaned and re-polished.

The chairs were designed by Josef Hoffmann for Thonet around 1920 and executed by FMG - Fabryka Mebli Gietych - in Poland in the first half of the 20th century. They have been reupho...

Five-arm chandelier for the Welz Family in Vienna. Lit.: WW Archive at the MAK in Vienna. A three-arm version will cost about 2/3 of the five-arm version Length custom Most componen...

The Palm Tree lamp series was designed by Josef Hoffmann in 1914 and manufactured by Bakalowits. These two lamps are original pieces from that period. Solid cast bronze and cut gla...

Classic Set of five No. 811 Thonet arm chairs or Prague chairs designed by Josef Hoffman made by Ligna / Czechoslovaka.. The chairs feature an iconic...

Designed for the head office of the then very famous tile manufacturer "Gebruder Schwadron", who also did the "Dianabad" in Vienna with sculptures of Michael Powolny and Otto Prutsch...

A very rare and early bench, obviously the role model for the famous Barrel chair #720 which was presented four years later, in 1905.

Josef Hoffman Club Chair America, 2000 "Club 1910" contemporary channel-tufted lounge chair by Josef Hoffmann, newly upholstered in 100% virgin wool by Rosemary Hallgarten, with wa...

A design for the Purkersdorf Sanatorium near Vienna. Originally manufactured at the Wiener Werkstaette, now manufactured at the WOKA workshop in Vienna. All components according to ...

- wooden parts made of beechwood has been refurbished and finished by shellac - original springs - needs to be reupholstered - made in Czechoslovakia - labeled by producer

A flatter version of the Josef Hoffmann and Wiener Werkstätte lamp Variations are available Most components according to the UL regulations, wit...

Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) was an influential Austrian architect and designer, known for his leadership in the Viennese Art Nouveau movement and for being one of the founders of the ...

Rare round beech wood table from the Vienna Secession, designed by the famous Austrian architect and designer Josef Hoffmann for the "Fledermaus" café in Vienna. FOR SHIPPING, REQUE...

Originally designed between 1905 and 1907 for Vienna's avant-garde Cabaret Fledermaus, the chair bridges the ornamental language of Art Nouveau with the geometric restraint of early ...

DESCRIPTION: Pair of Chairs by Josef Hoffmann, Model 511, for Thonet, Circa 1904, Austria. The frame is made of stained solid beech with a cane seat and the backrest with three turne...

A pendant version of the very early Josef Hoffmann table lamp design Most components according to the UL regulations, with an additional charge we will UL-list and label our fixtures.

Josef Hoffmann designed in the early stages of the Wiener Werkstätte apartments for the Wittgenstein Family in Vienna and Berlin. The significant pattern from this period were the st...

This flower vase, designed by Josef Hoffmann around 1905 for the Wiener Werkstätte, evokes the shape of a modernist skyscraper. The reissue is produced by Bieffeplast in Italy (80s),...

Attributed to either Josef Hoffmann or Otto Prutscher as both of the designers did similar objects in bentwood at this time, and both were using balls or olives for joining the legs ...

Viena secession brass side table by Josef Hoffmann in very nice original condition.

An excellent example of the more decorative phase of Josef Hoffmann, before the WW1. Carpenter Jakob Soulek for the Wiener Werkstätte. Exhibited first in 1912 at the Museum für Kunst...

Rare pair of No. 811 Thonet chairs or Prague chairs designed by Josef Hoffman. The chairs feature an iconic bentwood frame design with square shaped arms and a caned seat and back. E...

Magnificent chandelier in solid casted brass. Extraordinary elaborate finishes. Rich hangings with handcut crystal glasses. All components according to the UL regulations, with an a...

A chandelier which can illluminate a ceiling rosette from the bulbs inside the metal-part which is a mirror and reflect the light from the bulbs inside the glass-bowl. A smaller vers...

Totally restored with the original patina. Not signed. Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) was an influential Austrian architect and designer, known for his pivotal role in the development o...

Pendant, used in several Versions in Showrooms of the Wiener Werkstätte. Also available in a single Originally manufactured at the Wiener Werkstätte Atelier, now custom-made product...