Anton Grosser

Grand piano designed by Anton Grosser for the exhibition in Paris 1867.

Brussel

Designed by Dipl.-Ing. Jürgen Felsenstein, office Nobert Schlesinger.

Chrysler

The design for the Chrysler grand piano has been developed by Bösendorfer from the original Harrods concept.This superb instrument is a work of art that combines Bösendorfer’s precision craftsmanship in design and its tradition of piano manufacturing that is known all over the world.

Emperor

In 1869, the Emperor of Austria presented a richly ornamented grand piano as a gift to the Emperor of Japan. Only a short time later, however, the instrument was lost in a fire in the Tenno’s palace. But the plans still exist and are now used as a basis for production of the Modelsl Emperor, an exact replica of the original instrument. The Modelsl is decorated with richly carved and gilded details, all made by hand in a painstaking process to re-create the piano’s special imperial touch.

FA Porsche

The new Bösendorfer Porsche grand piano, which has been developed in close cooperation with the internationally reputed companies Porsche Design and Bösendorfer, represents a novel contemporary approach to piano design. In keeping with Bösendorfer's motto - cherish traditions, transcend limits - this Modelsl incorporates ground-breaking new design features that will have a lasting impact on piano design development. The combination of silvery shining aluminium and dark-grey metallic lacquer surfaces adds to the new Modelsl's unique appeal. The new Bösendorfer grand piano designed by F.A. Porsche Design is the latest addition to a series of extraordinary designer grands that began as early as in the 19th century and has brought forth superb and precious instruments.

Hans Hollein

Since it was founded in the year 1828 Bösendorfer has always made an effort to cooperate with leading architects and designers to build pianos that also underline the instrument’s exterior value in a contemporary style. In 1990 the
well-known Austrian architect Hans Hollein created the optically detailed Modelsl 225 for a limited edition. One of these designer pianos can be admired in the lounge of the Westin Grand Bohemian Hotel in Orlando, Florida.

Josef Frank

Josef Frank taught from 1919 to 1925 at the School for Applied Arts in Vienna, in 1925 he founded together with Oskar Wlach the “Haus und Garten” (House and Garden) company in Vienna and from 1930 until 1932 he was the director of the construction of the Vienna Werkbund settlement. He took over the entire management, including choosing which architects to invite, among them Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann, Oskar Strnad, Clemens Holzmeister, Oswald Haerdtl, Gerrit T. Rietveld. In 1934 Frank emigrated to Sweden, after 1938 he could not return to Vienna because of Austria’s “Anschluss” with the German Empire. Frank had a substantial influence on Swedish post-war design.

Josef Hoffmann

Josef Hoffmann, one of the most important Austrian architects, created one of the major works of the cubistic-geometric phase of the Viennese Art Nouveau – the Purkersdorf Sanatorium. This is a building that “was just as trail blazing for the year 1904 in its clarity of disposition, logical consistency of the formal composition and above all in the absolute simplicity of its cubistic forms as was Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building in Buffalo, the Scotland Street School in Glasgow by Mackintosh and Otto Wagner’s Postsparkassenamt”. Josef Hoffman also designed the furnishings of the Purkersdorf Sanatorium, these individual pieces are among the most important furniture designs of the period.

Swarovski

The Bösendorfer Modelsl Swarovski is literally a brilliant instrument whose sparkle lights up every room. Each piano is adorned with 8,000 hand-cut Swarovski crystals which give radiance to this most valuable of Bösendorfer grands. The unique Bösendorfer sound underlines the instrument's impressive exterior in a wonderful fashion.

Theophil Hansen

Theophil Edvard Hansen was born in 1813 in Copenhagen. He studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and went to Athens in 1838 with a Danish travel stipend for eight years. There he studied the Greek architectural style in great detail and learned about Byzantine forms of art. When Hansen decided he had no further possibilities of development in Athens, he went on to Vienna where he worked first as an assistant to the architect Förster before opening his own office in 1852. His first large project was the construction of the Arsenal. In 1858 he built the Protestant church at the Matzleinsdorf Cemetery. The church is built in the Byzantine style, but it also integrates elements of other architectural approaches.