Candlestick
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Candlestick
- Designer: Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, Pirnitz 1870–1956 Vienna)
- Manufacturer: Wiener Werkstätte
- Date: ca. 1903–6
- Medium: Metal alloy
- Dimensions: 7 5/8 × 2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in., 0.2 lb. (19.4 × 5.5 × 5.5 cm, 0.1 kg)
- Classification: Silver
- Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
- Object Number: 2021.54.19
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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Josef Hoffmann
late 19th–early 20th century
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Josef Hoffmann
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Josef Hoffmann
ca. 1920
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