Gallia table and chair

Description

Open Edition Reproduction

Historical Antique. The Gallia family apartment collection is a set of furniture and decorative objects that are the surviving Vienna Secession style contents of the 1913 apartment of wealthy businessman and his wife, Moritz and Hermine Gallia, mostly designed by leading architect and designer Joseph Hoffman. When the Gallia’s children had to flee the Anschluss with Nazi Germany in 1938, they brought what remained with them to Australia, a place ‘as far away as they could get’ where it was subsequently purchased in 1976 by National Gallery of Victoria.