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In 1904, Viktor Zuckerkandl, brother-in-law of Wiener Werkstätte admirer Berta Zuckerkandl, commissioned Josef Hoffmann and his colleagues to design a new building for his Westend Sanatorium in Purkersdorf near Vienna. The building, the first major commission for the Wiener Werkstätte, has gone down in architectural history as the Purkersdorf sanatorium. A close relation is established between exterior and interior space through the recurrent use of line, cube, and plane as an aesthetic statement both within and without. This relationship is reinforced by generous use of glass and transparent partitions, a second theme running through both the inside and the outside of the Sanatorium.
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