![]() ![]() The chair is equipped with a retractable footrest and the backrest locks in five different positions, giving the person maximum choice when sitting for a long time. Emphasizing sitting comfort and keeping the body in a comfortable position, Hoffmann tries to give this almost medical device an attractive, artistic quality. The Sitzmaschine chair is a furniture design manifesto that so clearly and vividly expresses a fundamental design concept: expressing function through aesthetics. At the beginning of the last century, it was an avant-garde invention, both functionally and aesthetically. ![]() Today, this furniture design is considered a classic, an iconic object. In 1905, he created the Sitzmaschine (sitting machine) especially for his friend, who was unable to move on his own due to a spinal injury. By the way, it was the illness of a close friend that motivated Josef Hoffmann to take up furniture design. It is well known that furniture assembled without observing the principles of ergonomics can cause serious damage to the human body - from simple discomfort to spine diseases. It is known that comfortable and properly designed furniture helps people relax, supports their posture and supports the musculoskeletal corset. Josef Hoffmann, December, – May 1903, XNUMX, photo from XNUMX ![]() The principles of designing upholstered furniture combined two sciences, orthopedics and material resistance. Long before the concept of design itself was created, the architect and artist Josef Hoffmann laid its foundations by combining aesthetic and scientific approaches. ![]()
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