Hoffmann

by August Sarnitz

Before aesthete, designer, and architect Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) came along, Austrian architecture and design was suffocating under a surfeit of opulent ornamentation and bombastic flourish. With his radical new approach and a band of like-minded figures, Hoffmann was a founding father of the Viennese Secession and Wiener Werkst tte and revolutionized Western aesthetics with a brave new minimalism. This essential introduction explores Hoffmann's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836550393
• ISBN13: 9783836550390
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.3"