Painted wood chest of drawers in the style of Joseph Hoffmann, 1970s


Black and cream painted wood chest of drawers/"settimanale" made in Italy between the late 1960s and early 1970s. The proposed piece of furniture, in a very good state of conservation, recalls one of the most iconic furnishings of the great Austrian architect Joseph Hoffmann (Crtnice, 1870 – Vienna, 1956). The furniture, the drawing of which can be found in the volume "Joseph Hoffmann. Interiors 1902-1913" edited by the Neue Galerie in New York, is indicated as "simple supplies"; it is actually a very complex and elaborate piece of furniture, with sinuous and innovative lines, certainly revolutionary for its time and still relevant today. The front is equipped with seven small front drawers with a curved line towards the inside; the sides, rounded, have two large hinged doors; in the upper part, above the top, there are four small drawers placed two by two on its sides. The borders, as well as the simple and linear support structures, are in black stained wood. Linear backrest. It is probably a piece of furniture created in Italy, probably in Lombardy; this hypothesis is also confirmed by the particular hardware used which bears the brand of a well-known local manufacturing company.
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