Josef Hoffmann

Part architect - part artist, Austrian designer Josef Hoffmann possessed an unmistakable minimal style and was a pioneer of the arts and crafts movement in the early 1900’s. Today, his sophisticated designs remain in production and his originals, though antiques, still find relevance in modern design.

As modernity began to question tradition at the end of the 1800’s, so did designers like Joseph Hoffman. Along with other great artistic minds like Gustav Klimt and Koloman Moser, Hoffman led the way with the Vienna Secession, a movement that aimed to steer design away from Historicism and create a new style that was all its own.  He had a natural gift for creating beautiful forms, and he proceeded to make the most of it during a career that spanned more than 50 years.

In this half century the conditions and nature of architectural practice changed profoundly, but Hoffmann’s fundamental approach remained the same. He relied on his intuition to produce works that were unmistakably his own in their formal and compositional treatment, yet mirrored all stylistic changes in the European architectural scene.

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