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Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Wiener Werkstatte "Clan, " Austria, 1928, designed by Mathilde Flogl D443 04

Title: Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Wiener Werkstatte "Clan, " Austria, 1928, designed by Mathilde Flogl D443_04
Design Library Classification: Art Movements and Period Styles
Design Library Sub-classification: Wiener Werkstatte
Media Type Textile Design
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Creator(s): Unknown
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Contributor: Design Library
Country "Clan
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Publication Date: " Austria
Image Description: "Clan, " Austria, 1928

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"THE ARTS AND CRAFTS and Aesthetic movements' crusade to apply the highest standards of design to modern living was carried on in Austria by the Wiener Werkstatte (Vienna Workshops), founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser. Whereas the followers of William Morris had proposed design shops rather like the medieval guilds, the Wiener Werkstatte anticipated the Bauhaus's vision of the designer as a partner with twentieth-century industry. Its designs, too, were a bridge between the Arts and Crafts movement and the deliberately modern forms of Art Deco. The Wiener Werkstatte were indeed many workshops, producing not only metalwork, leatherwork, bookbinding, and cabinetry but eventually ceramics, carpets, wallpaper, fashion apparel, and woven, embroidered, and printed fabric. The Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an important influence on the Wiener Werkstatte - he created a sympathetic logo for them, in fact - and the early output, following his example, was mostly quite spare and geometric. But the workshops' fabric designers soon came to relish other families of patterns, as the typically abstract floral of number 5 attests. Though plagued by recurrent financial problems and the chaos wrought by World War I, the Wiener Werkstatte managed to stay in business until 1932."

Source: Design Library