Wiener Werkstätte

ウィーン工房 / 1903–1932 / Style / Modern Design Movements

Hoffmann and Moser's workshop designed everything from buildings to furniture, tableware and fashion with one geometry and one standard of craft — the total work of art practiced as a commercial workshop.

Squares and grids / Black-and-white contrast / Luxurious handcraft / Whole lives designed

Wiener Werkstätte — ホフマン ストックレー邸（CC BY-SA 3.0）Wiener Werkstätte — ストックレー邸の模型（CC0）
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Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study
Josef Hoffmann / Koloman Moser / Klimt's Stoclet Frieze

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