Wiener Werkstätte Austrian art and crafts studio
2021-07-21
Wiener Werkstatte was based on the ideals of the guild system & developed a direct relationship between designers and craftspeople. READ MORE >Read More →
Valerie Wieselthier (1896 – 1945) Austrian-American ceramic artist
2021-07-15
She was the head of the Wiener Werkstätte’s ceramic workshop. She worked in a highly distinctive style with coarse modelling and drip-glass effects. Read More →
Dagobert Peche (1887 – 1923) Austrian artist and designer
2021-07-13
He devised wholly new, amusing forms, frequently in simple materials like tole and cardboard; the conditions caused by World War I dictated the use of low-cost raw materials. Read More →
Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) Austrian Designer
2021-06-21
Although trained and active as an architect, Sottsass secured a permanent place in pop culture with his designs of everyday items. From 1957, he was a consultant designer at Olivetti, where he designed computers, adding machines, typewriters, and systems furniture. Read More →
Erwin Komeda (1904 – 1966) Austrian Automobile Designer
2021-06-21
In 1934, he joined Ferdinand Porsche’s design bureau in Stuttgart and began work on the styling of the Volkswagen, the people’s car.Read More →
Richard Josef Neutra (1892 – 1970) Austrian American architect and designer
2021-05-27
Richard Josef Neutra (1892 – 1970) was an Austrian American artist and designer. He was born in Vienna and lived in Los Angeles and southern California for much of his life.Read More →
Friedl Dicker (1899 – 1944) Austrian architect and furniture, interior, and textile designer
2021-05-11
Friedl Dicker was an Austrian architect and furniture, interior, and textile designer, she was born in Vienna. Read More →
Werkstätten Hagenauer Austrian metalsmiths
2021-04-16
Werkstätten Hagenauer were Vienna-based Austrian metalsmiths. Over its nearly ninety-year history, it was a family business in Vienna that produced fine, handcrafted objects for decoration and use. The workshop closed in 1987, but the company’s retail premises on Vienna’s Opernring, which opened in 1938, is still open today as a museum and shop.Read More →
Bruno Pollack (1902 – 1985) – Austrian furniture designer
2021-04-05
Pollack invented a tubular steel stacking chair, model RP7, which was manufactured from c1932 and revolutionised auditorium seating with its stacking concept. Cox, a British furniture maker, was embroiled in a legal battle with rival Pel in 1934 over the Rp6 stacking chair, which Pel had bought the rights from Pollack.Read More →
Otto Wagner: An Architectural Colouring Book
2021-03-12
By the time the Viennese architect Otto Wagner (1841-1918) began publishing the drawings included in this colouring book, he had already spent much of his career designing historicist-style buildings. But his attitude was changing, and he completely ignored those early designs in time.Read More →
Otto Wagner (1841 – 1918) Austrian architect and designer
2021-03-12
Architect Otto Wagner was one of the leading figures in the Vienna Secession. After studying architecture at the Vienna Technical High School (1857–1860) and the Vienna Academy (1861–183), he worked in various historical styles for many years until he joined the Secession.Read More →
Swarovski Austrian Glass Company
2021-03-11
Swarovski is an Austrian glass manufacturer. Daniel Swarovski founded the company in 1895. In 1895, he left Bohemia for the Austrian Tyrol. He established a factory in Wattens for the industrial production of cut crystal stones. From 1917 on, these stones were marketed as ‘Tyrolite,’ which is now the company’s industrial division.Read More →
Kolman Moser Austrian Painter, Designer, Metal Worker and Graphic Artist
2020-10-14
Kolman Moser was an Austrian, designer, metal worker and graphic designer. He was born in Vienna.
He designed for the Wiener Mode and in 1895 with other artists produced the Allegories set of folio volumes. It was during this time that he met Gustav Klimt.Read More →