Hoffmann Designs the Palais Stoclet

Article abstract: The Palais Stoclet was Josef Hoffmann’s architectural masterpiece, and the building set a precedent for domestic architecture.

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By 1905, Josef Hoffmann had become one of Vienna’s more successful so-called Secessionist architects, who had abandoned the ornate and imitative styles of traditional Austrian architecture. Hoffmann’s chief inspiration was his former professor, Otto Wagner, the head of the Architectural School of the Austrian Academy of Fine Arts. Wagner had developed an austere, rectilinear style that...

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