Pamono Art Nouveau Buffet by Prof. Josef Hoffmann for J. J. Kohn Sale

The buffet shown is one of Prof. Josef Hoffmann’s signature furniture designs for the Viennese bentwood furniture company Jacob & Josef Kohn. It was created in 1904 and is part of dining room no. 306. Individual pieces from this room—the buffet no. 3120, the grandfather clock no. 3124, and the armchair no. 330—were presented as part of Kohn’s exhibition at the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis, which also included works by Gustav Siegel, Otto Wagner, and Koloman Moser. This presentation impressively illustrates the close collaboration between these key figures of Viennese Modernism.
In the art world, the buffet is sometimes attributed to Koloman Moser.