Pair of 1950s Bauhaus Armchairs Attributed to Josef Hoffmann for Thonet

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Fantastic pair of vintage half-moon chairs attributed to Josef Hoffmann. Done in the classic Hoffman manner with a black lacquered … Read more Fantastic pair of vintage half-moon chairs attributed to Josef Hoffmann. Done in the classic Hoffman manner with a black lacquered bentwood frame reupholstered in a luxurious velvet animal print fabric. Marked with a made-in-Denmark tag, this set of chairs are strong and simple, built to last, and impervious to trends.

The Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann was a central figure in the evolution of modern design, and a leader in an aesthetic movement born in Europe in the late 19th century that rejected florid, extravagant ornamentation in favor of a new emphasis on simplicity of line.

As a founder of the Vienna Secession — a union of artists and designers determined to upend Austria’s artistic conservatism — and later, a founder of the turn-of-the-century Wiener Werkstätte (in English: the Viennese Workshops), a design cooperative that produced superbly crafted furniture and housewares, Hoffmann was a pioneering practitioner of what would become a fundamental principle of modernism: that good design is a way of life. See less