Projects by the students of the
Bachelor Major in Art, Major in Design,
and the Master in Eco-Social Design

Design Classic – Purkersdorf Armchair

Student
Lecturer/s
Course/s

BA Design Warm-Up – Foundation Course

Year

2023

semester

The armchair was designed 1903 for the entrance to the Purkersdorf Sanatorium of Vienna, an elegant spa-style health resort. The reduction of form to the classic geometries of the cube gestures toward simplifying production and also allowing for visual interest in the workmanship of the wood and the patterning between black and white, solid and void.