Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte
Title | Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte PDF eBook |
Author | Neue Galerie New York |
Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Postcards |
ISBN | 9783775727518 |
An exhibition of postcards published by the Vienna Workshops beginning in 1907.
Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte
Title | Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte PDF eBook |
Author | Neue Galerie New York |
Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Postcards |
ISBN | 9783775727518 |
An exhibition of postcards published by the Vienna Workshops beginning in 1907.
Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry
Title | Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry PDF eBook |
Author | Renée Price |
Publisher | Hatje Cantz Verlag |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 2017-12 |
Genre | DESIGN |
ISBN | 9783775743921 |
The jewelry of the Wiener Werkstätte blurs the lines between gorgeous ornament and miniature sculpture The Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops, was founded in 1903. The firm's artistic cofounders, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, subscribed to the English Arts and Crafts ideal of exceptionally well-made objects designed by artists and executed by specialized craftsmen. Following the example of near contemporaries René Lalique and Louis Comfort Tiffany, Hoffmann and Moser shared the belief that jewelry should be valued for its artistic merit and not simply for its monetary value. This opulent publication highlights masterpieces created by the Wiener Werkstätte between 1903 and the early 1920s. It features significant pieces by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Carl Otto Czeschka and Dagobert Peche, among others. Supplemental materials include relevant periodicals, design drawings and photographs of prominent clients.
Wiener Werkstatte
Title | Wiener Werkstatte PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriele Fahr-Becker |
Publisher | Taschen America Llc |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9783822888803 |
Wiener Werkstatte
Title | Wiener Werkstatte PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Burke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2000-09-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780764913792 |
Jacqueline Groag
Title | Jacqueline Groag PDF eBook |
Author | Geoff Rayner |
Publisher | Acc Art Books |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2019-07 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781788840538 |
* Showcases the textiles design work of Czech designer Jacqueline Groag Jacqueline Groag was probably the most influential textile designer in Britain in the post Second World War era. Although originally Czech, she studied textile and pattern design in Austria in the 1920s. During the late twenties and early thirties she designed textiles for the Wiener Werkstatte in Vienna and subsequently designed and produced unique hand printed lengths of fabrics for many of the leading Parisian fashion houses, including Chanel, Lanvin, Worth, Schiaparelli and Paul Poiret. She was awarded a gold medal for textile design at the Milan Triennale in 1933 and another gold medal for printed textiles at the Paris World Fair in 1937. Jacqueline was not only a serious and highly respected contender in the field of textile and pattern design but, with her husband, the Modernist architect Jacques Groag, was also deeply immersed in the intellectual life of Vienna. In 1938 the sophisticated world of Jacques and Jacqueline was brutally shattered when the Anschluss, the political unification of Austria and Germany, occurred and the German army entered Vienna. Faced with the actuality of the Nazi terror the Groags, who were Jewish, fled to Czechoslovakia and their home city of Prague. After a brief respite they were once more forced to flee in 1939, this time to London. On their arrival in England they were welcomed and championed by leading members of the British design fraternity, amongst whom were Sir Gordon Russell, the doyen of British architects Sir Charles Reilly and Jack Pritchard, founder of the modernist design company, Isokon. From 1940 until her death in 1986, Jacqueline had a long and successful career. Much of the Contemporary style of the textiles and wallpapers shown at the 1951 Festival of Britain were heavily indebted to her influential designs of the 1940s. Many examples of her work were featured prominently at the Festival and from then on she became a major influence on pattern design internationally. She developed a large client group in the United States during the fifties and sixties, amongst whom were Associated American Artists, Hallmark Cards and American Greetings Ohio.In the later 1950s and throughout the 1960s she became increasingly involved with Sir Misha Black and the Design Research Unit (D.R.U.), working on the interiors for boats and planes and trains, particularly the design of textiles and plastic laminates for BOAC and British Rail. One of her last commissions from Misha Black, in the mid-seventies was a distinctive moquette for London Transport, for seating on both buses and tube trains. Her work and influence did not just extend to the large corporations and exclusive couturiers but was familiar to the general public through stores and companies such as John Lewis, Liberty of London, David Whitehead, Edinburgh Weavers, Sandersons, Warerite and Formica. Her remarkable achievement finally received public recognition in 1984 when, at the age of 81, she was made an R.D.I. - a Royal Designer for Industry - the ultimate accolade for any designer in Britain.
Wiener Werkstätte, Design in Vienna 1903-1932
Title | Wiener Werkstätte, Design in Vienna 1903-1932 PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Brandstätter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2003-12-02 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
"This book details the breadth of the workshop's design vision, and provides a comprehensive overview of the movement, one of the high points of modern design history and a beacon for artists and designers ever since."--BOOK JACKET.