Wiener Werkstätte Identity - Vienna Secession Design - designers Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, & Dagobert Peche, 1903–1932 #print #design #hoffman

There are some interesting fabric pieces to see at the National Gallery of Victoria Vienna Art and Design exhibition, although I could have done with more of Josef Hoffman's Wiener Werkstätte textile designs.

Ever heard of Wiener Werkstätte? Me neither. What happened to the most fashionable and successful Viennese design brands ever?

Monograms, artists and designers of the Vienna Secession. Including Maximilian Lenz and Gustav Klimt.

While Art Nouveau swept 1890s France and Belgium, in Vienna a slightly different style took hold.

Koloman Moser, Original Design for Opening of Wiener Werkstätte Showroom (1905)

"Give me a beach, something to eat, and a couple of broads, and I can get along without material things." The Santa Monica bus driver who expressed his basic but base view of the sublime to city sage Reyner Banham (who included it in his 1971 book Los Angeles the architecture of the four ecologies),