In the style of Josef Hoffmann

A Japanese haori from the Taisho period.

• The Vienna Secession was a reaction to the conservative artistic institutions in Vienna at the end of the 19th century and spread rapidly via media such as catalogs and magazines. These certainly reached Japan, as is evidenced by the Secession’s influence on the Japanese design of the era.
• The designer's choice for the pattern on this silk haori is akin to that of Josef Hoffmann's illustration for a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, Year I, 1898, Issue 9, pg 23 Vienna, Austria in the Ver Sacrum which was the official journal of the Vienna Secession.