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Viennese Design and the Wiener Werstatte
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At the turn of the century, Vienna emerged as a great cultural center that stood at the forefront of developments in music, psychology and the natural sci-ences. Equally influential, and still tremendously popular today, are the designs of the Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshop, a group that was at the heart of the city's cultural scene and whose collaborators included such luminaries as the architect Josef Hoffmann, the designer Koloman Moser, and the painters Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele. This guide to the arts and crafts of fin-de-siècle Vienna is an excellent introduction to their work in all media —architecture, furniture, ceramics and glass, silver, fashion and textiles, bookbinding, toys, and painting and the graphic arts—as well as a survey of the cultural development of this pivotal period.
