Wiener Werkstätte
The Vienna design workshops of 1903 to 1932, whose makers turned grids, squares and fine handwork into complete modern interiors.
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Walk into a Wiener Werkstätte interior and the square is everywhere: in black-and-white chequerboard floors, in the pierced lattice of silver baskets, in the monograms stamped on every piece. The workshops were set up in Vienna in 1903 by the architect Josef Hoffmann and the painter-designer Koloman Moser, with money from the patron Fritz Wärndorfer, to make objects of every kind by hand.
Their grandest commission, the Palais Stoclet in Brussels (1905–11), joined Hoffmann's architecture, the workshops' furniture and silver, and a mosaic frieze by Gustav Klimt into one total work of art. Moser left in 1907, and from 1915 Dagobert Peche brought a lighter, more whimsical ornament. J. and L. Lobmeyr made glass to Hoffmann's designs, Otto Prutscher contributed glass and silver, and a fashion department took the style into clothing. Debts closed it in 1932. Look for hammered silver, stylised flowers, strict geometry and the WW mark.
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