Josef Hoffmann, Side Table for J. & J. Kohn, Vienna Secession, c.1910-1915

Side Table No. 960/2 attributed to Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) and produced by J. & J. Kohn, Vienna, executed by D.G. Fischel & Söhne, the Bohemian bentwood manufacturer. The model is documented in the Kohn Verkaufskatalog with an original retail price of 15 Kronen 40 Heller. The underside retains a partial paper label of D.G. Fischel & Söhne, supporting the production attribution. Hoffmann's furniture for J. & J. Kohn forms one of the central bodies of work in the Vienna Secession's industrial-design programme: pieces designed by leading Wiener Werkstätte architects but executed at industrial scale through the Kohn and Thonet factories. The model 960/2 sits in the more restrained idiom of Hoffmann's Kohn output - circular twin tops on a quartet of turned legs joined by an X-stretcher, in ebonised beech. Dimensions: H 74 × W 60 × D 48 cm. Materials: Beech, ebonised. Condition: Very good - restored by a specialist workshop in Vienna; the ebonised surface has been refinished according to period technique.