Joseph Hoffmann (designed By), Chest

Joseph Hoffmann (designed by)
Crtnice, 1870 - Vienna, 1956

Chest
wooden cabinet painted in cream and black.
Italy, late 1960s - early 1970s
cm. 120x118x48

The proposed piece of furniture, in a very good state of conservation, recalls one of the most iconic furnishings of the great Austrian architect Joseph Hoffmann.

The piece of furniture, the drawing of which can be found in the Joseph Hoffmann volume. Interiors 1902-1913 edited by the Neue Galerie in New York, is listed as "simple supplies". It is actually a very complex and elaborate piece of furniture, with sinuous and innovative lines, certainly revolutionary for its time and still relevant today.

The front is equipped with seven small front drawers with a curved line towards the inside; the sides, rounded, have two large hinged doors; in the upper part, above the top, there are four small drawers placed two by two on its sides. The profiles, as well as the simple and linear support structures, are in black stained wood. Linear backrest.

It is probably a piece of furniture created in Italy - probably in Lombardy, dating back to between the sixth and seventh decades. This hypothesis is also confirmed by the particular hardware used which bears the brand of a well-known local manufacturing company