Wiener Werkstätte

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

The workshop founded by Hoffmann and Moser designed buildings, furniture, tableware and clothing to a single geometry and a single standard of handwork. It practiced the total work of art, treating all of daily life as one piece, inside a commercial enterprise.

Wiener Werkstätte — Hoffmann, Stoclet House (CC BY-SA 3.0) · © Busoni — Hoffmann, Stoclet House (CC BY-SA 3.0) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · © Busoni

Wiener Werkstätte — Josef Hoffmann, Wiener Werkstätte, sheet metal vessel 1904–07 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0 · © Sailko — Josef Hoffmann, Wiener Werkstätte, sheet metal vessel 1904–07 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0 · CC BY 3.0 · © Sailko

At a glance

Visual cues

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

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A small brand designing tableware, packaging and interior by one hand
Building a high priced craft line where geometry and handwork coexist

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Dictionary entry

Type: Geometric letterforms drawn from the square for this use alone
Composition: Elements on grid intersections, white space measured in the same square
Material: Black and white as the ground, with silver, wood and leather in small doses
Caution: Reproducing the grid and the black and white by machine alone, where the absence of hand precision leaves nothing but stiff decoration.
Further study: Josef Hoffmann / Koloman Moser / Klimt's Stoclet Frieze

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