Viennese Design and the Wiener Werstätte

New York: Galerie St. Etienne / George Braziller, 1986. Softcover. VG (May have slightly overall aging; may have price sticker on back cover.). Color-illus. wraps with white/orange lettering. 152 pp. with 55 color and 195 bw illus. Catalogue from the exhibit at Gallery Etienne from September - November 1986. Exquisite works with brief annotations. "Designs by the Wiener Werkstatte (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 of fin-de-siecle Viwnna is an excellent introduction to their work in all media, as well as a survey of the cultural development of this pivotal period." With an essay on the history of the Wiener Werkstatte and other enlightening text, plus a chronology and extensive footnotes. Uncommon. (Inventory #: 147411)