Designed by Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, 1870–1956)
Produced by the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna, 1903–1932)
Austria, Vienna
Santa Sofia
INV-1199
Designed by Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, 1870–1956)
Produced by the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna, 1903–1932)
Austria, Vienna1910/12
ModernismArt Nouveauwiener werkstättetextileweaving - printed
Date
1910/12
Medium
Silk and cotton, plain weave; block printed
Dimensions
135.7 × 114.6 cm (53 3/8 × 45 1/8 in.); Repeat: 37.4 × 24.1 cm (14 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Robert Allerton
Josef Hoffmann, artistic director of the Wiener Werkstätte from its inception in 1903 until 1931 (it closed for good in 1932), was a talented and prolific artist. Trained as an architect under Otto Wagner, Hoffmann established a design practice that grew to include furniture, utensils and household objects, jewelry, book bindings, posters, textiles, and wallpaper. His earlier work, exemplified by the iconic pattern of this fabric, reflects a structural or architectural view of pattern in which geometric forms are arranged to form a grid.
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