Design Classic – Purkersdorf Armchair
Student
Lecturer/s
Course topic/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.