The Modern Interior

conceived as totally unified and which, more than most, aspired to the

status of a luxurious work of art. Hoffmann achieved that goal through

a repetition of the delineation of the joints between the planes of the

building and of its contents, and through a unified approach towards the

manipulation of the proportions, the lighting, the colours, the materials,

the decorative details of the internal structural elements, and the furni-

ture and the furnishings. So visually and materially rich and complex was

48 Hoffmann’s interior composition, the walls of which were covered with

A sitting area in the Palais Stoclet, Brussels, designed by Josef Hoffmann, 1905 – 11 ,

illustrated in The Studio, 1914.