American Art Deco Occasional Table by Wolfgang Hoffmann

This beautiful and useful American art deco occasional table was designed by Wolfgang HoffmannWolfgang Hoffmann
American [1900 - 1969] 

Wolfgang Hoffmann was born in Vienna, Austria in 1900. The son of the famous architect and Wiener Werkstatte co-founder, Joseph Hoffmann, Wolfgang was early trained in the Decorative Arts. While in Vienna, Wolfgang met and married his wife, Pola, who had been born in Poland in 1902 and was studying under Joseph Hoffmann at the Vienna School of Design. In 1925 the couple arrived in New York and worked for Joseph Urban in the American branch of the Wiener Werkstatte. Leaving Urban, the Hoffmanns formed an independent design team with offices on Madison Avenue in New York. During the late 1920's and early 1930's the Hoffmanns designed custom furniture for private clients. The Hoffmanns' work was shown at both the 1928 and 1929 American Designers Gallery Exhibitions. In 1932 Wolfgang was asked to assist Joseph Urban in developing the color scheme for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair and also was asked to design the interior and furniture for the Lumber Industries house. The Chicago World's Fair brought Hoffmann to the attention of the Howell Co., headquartered in Geneva, Illinois. (Later, St. Charles, Illinois), where he became resident designer from 1934 through 1942, offering lines of chromed steel furniture. (1900 – 1969), son of famous Vienna architect and co-founder of the Wiener Werkstatte, Josef Hoffmann. Produced for the Howell Company of St. Charles, Illinois, the elegant table combines a rebus of chromed steel and high gloss black lacquer. It also features an innovative leather wrapped handle to facilitate moving it about the room. This table was one of two of Hoffmann’s designs that were featured in the Museum Show, “At Home in the Thirties” and was later sent on loan to a museum show in Vienna, Austria on expatriate Austrian designers who flourished in America in the 1930’s. The table is 22” wide x 13 ½” deep and is 20” high to the top surface and 25” to the top of the handle.

Reference# AF127

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