“Better to work 10 days on one product than to manufacture 10 products in one day.” Wiener Werkstätte motto
I was going to post a blog about an obsession of ours Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops).. A large community of artists and designers working in Vienna from 1903 thought to the early 1930’s. Who’s main aim was to resist mass production and industrialization.
I originally intended to start with there textile and clothing designs as they are mind blowing, way, way ahead of their time and one of the things we would collect if we could afford to.
However our darling daughter Chromium Dumb Belle has been feeling a little glum and its kind of hard to give her a hug when she is 5000 miles away. So i thought I would start with their ceramics as I just know there will be a few pieces she hasn’t seen that she will just adore…. hopefully this will make up for the rubbish emails I send her when she is feeling a little down.
Cx
Wish this was in colour, have spent ages imagining what colours the wall paper would be.
oh yea!!!!!!!!!!! This is so good! i love that black n white photo and the full length figurines!!! and the blue and pink ;ad is so grogeous!!!!! I love the WW ceramics so much but not much good ones onlin pictured and i remembered all those good ones you hd in books…xxxxx
ive been contemplating maybe aking a ceramics class….but i dont have the money to do it right now but i would LOVE to….i keep really fancying making smething like that….im getting the urge…
Just up? Or did you type that comment with a blindfold on?
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i came back to have another look…i must have had a blindfold on because i didnt see any of the text come up when i saw this so i just saw the pics yesterday…and what you wrote was so the best and has cheered me up so mcuh!!! I Love you guys..im so lucky to have the best parents who like the best stuff, who bought me up to appreciate the best most colourful things!!!! I love you for doing this post….xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and…i was gonna do a post on a few of the clothes i found online…but i bet you have better,….but i like the printed boots and the printed all in one topsy turvy outfits!
The wallpaper in the second photo blew me away, never seen anything like it.
Some very appealing pieces there, must find out a bit more about the Wiener Werkstaette.
My next post is going to be on their textiles and prints, just trying to decide what pictures to post…just toooo many nice ones! So I’m guessing next post may be picture heavy!
well ill wait for you to do that then so then i can steal them for my own!!!!!ha haaaaaaaaaaa……
Your stall at Woodbridge was fantastic, I had a good look through everything with my daughter. Love the above subject I am a great fan, I studied the group when I was at Colchester Institute and based a whole paper dress project around their ideals. The third statue down reminds me of the patterns by Alice Natter (I think i’ve got that right) I can’t remember exactly I think she worked with Fortuny i’ll have to look it up.
Adele
oh my this is scrummy! LOvE those funny little cherub chaps with their floral modesty garlands! t.x