Candlestick
Designer Josef Hoffmann Austrian
Manufacturer Wiener Werkstätte
Not on view
Gitterwerk is a technique using sheet metal perforated with a regular pattern of squares. In chair backs, the Scottish designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh pioneered the use of cut or incised squares as decorative motifs. The Wiener Werkstätte transformed this motif into the integral structure. Made in sterling silver or lesser metals, this versatile form of lattice work became a signature of the workshop’s production. This particular example is iconic for its boldly avant-garde form suggestive of utopian architectural structures.
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