Josef Hoffmann - Design Vienna and the Wiener Werkstätte New York Thursday, March 3, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Christian Brandstätter, Wonderful Wiener Werkstätte: Design in Vienna 1903–1932, Vienna, 2003, p. 280; Michael Huey, ed., Viennese Silver: Modern Design 1780–1918, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2003, p. 301, cat. no. 160 for a similar example

  • Catalogue Essay

    Josef Hoffmann’s preparatory drawing for the present lot is registered at the MAK, Vienna as K.I. 12047/2
    The Wiener Werkstätte Model Book page for the present lot, on file at the MAK Vienna, records the initial provenances of twelve of the eighteen boxes produced. In addition to orders placed by the Werkstätte office in Vienna and its branch in Karlsbad, Germany, other boxes were purchased by prominent supporters of the firm including co-founder Fritz Waerndorfer and the Hirschwald Family, owners of a rare sconce (Lot 16) also in hammered silver-plated alpaca.

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Rare box, model no. M 122

ca. 1904
Silver-plated alpaca.
1 3/4 × 5 3/8 × 4 in. (4.4 × 13.7 × 10.2 cm.)
Executed by the Wiener Werkstätte, Austria. From the production of 18. Reverse impressed with “WIENER/WERK/STÄTTE.”

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Design Vienna and the Wiener Werkstätte

3 March 2011
New York