A special find

Brooch by Josef Hoffman, 1910



Cigarette case by Josef Hoffman, 1910








From Britannica.com

Wiener Werkstätte

Vienna Workshops: Cooperative enterprise for crafts and design founded in Vienna in 1903. Inspired by William Morris

and the English Arts and Crafts movement, it was founded by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffman with the goal of restoring the values of handcraftsmanship to an industrial society in which such crafts were dying. Its members had close ties to the artists of the Vienna Sezession and the Art Nouveau movement. The Wiener Werkstätte's work in jewelry, furnishings, interior design, fashion, and other areas, which often celebrated the beauty of geometry, became widely known for elegance and innovation, and this “square style” influenced the work of the Bauhaus craftsmen in the 1920s as well as the work of Frank Lloyd Wright
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via a very interesting post in venetianred.com

Current mood

Developing a very very soft soft spot for Art Nouveau

Palau de la Música Catalana, Lluís Domènech i Montaner

Jewel, René Jules Lalique (1860-1945)

Zodiac by Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)

Park Güell, Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926)

Photo credits:

Lalique: vidalia_11 at Flickr

Alphonse Mucha DamyanArt at Flickr

(but don't miss the website of the Mucha Foundation )

Antonio Gaudí: acastellano at Flickr ; more about his life and work in this link