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

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  • Literature

    Peter Noever ed., Josef Hoffmann Designs, exh. cat., Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, 1992, p. 110, fig. 157 for a drawing and p. 172, fig. 268; Die Wiener Werkstätte 1903Ð1928, Modernes Kunstgewerbe und sein Weg, Munich, 1994, n.p.; Martin Eidelberg, ed., Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts, exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, p. 123, fig. 63

  • Catalogue Essay


    Josef Hoffmann's preparatory drawing for the present lot is registered at the MAK, Vienna as K.I. 12059/9.

51

"Aufsatz" centerpiece

ca. 1930

Hammered brass.

7 × 10 7/8 × 7 1/4 in. (17.8 × 27.6 × 18.4 cm.)
Executed by the Wiener Werkstätte, Austria. Lip impressed with "MADE/IN/AUSTRIA," "JH" and "WIENER/WERK/STATTE."

Estimate
$15,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $25,000

Design Vienna and the Wiener Werkstätte

3 March 2011
New York