Modernist pioneers Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos are very similar on paper. Born only a few days apart in 1870, only a few miles apart in what was then Moravia (the Czech Republic now), the two ...

WHAT MATTERS more—how a room looks on the outside or how it makes you feel on the inside? That is the question at the heart of a new design exhibition, “Ways to Modernism: Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, ...

Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos, the two most important architects in turn-of-the-century Vienna, were born five days apart in 1870, a few dozen miles from each other in Moravia, then part of the Austro ...

Preface / Ronald S. Lauder -- Foreword / Renée Price -- Introduction / Christian Witt-Dörring -- In the chambre séparée of the soul: on the mental interior of Viennese Moderne / Paul Jandl -- On the ...

This book is the first comprehensive document to the complete works of Josef Hoffmann. As a student of Otto Wagner, a founding member of the Vienna Secession art movement (1897), a professor at the ...

Josef Hoffmann had a natural gift for creating beautiful forms and this was exemplified throughout his long career as an architect, designer and draughtsman. Fifty ...

Phillips announced highlights from the London Design auction, taking place on 31 October. Featuring 136 lots, the sale brings together rare and important works of 20th and 21st century French, Italian ...