Studio: international art (30.1904)

Wicker Furniture

Though these are very delicate, they are easily kept
clean, besides having the advantage that in case of
damage new ones can be easily supplied. Many
new designs have also been made in the patterns
of basket - weaving by Professor Moser, Mr.
Vollmer, Mr. Schmidt, and other artists; and
this, too, reflects on the workers, who no
longer do their work in the perfunctory way as of
old, but exert themselves to do justice to the
designs by showing real interest in them.

Basket-work is now also being employed for
chandeliers where electric light is used, and though,
of course, it can in no way compete with bronze

WICKER CHAIR DESIGNED BY H. VOLLMER

EXECUTED BY PRAG-RUDNIKER

as far as beauty is concerned, it has the advantage
of being cheap and also pretty.

Perhaps one of the greatest advantages of basket-
work is that it can easily be kept clean. Professor
Schrotter and Dr. Weismayer recognised this, for
the couches used at Alland, the home for con-
sumptives, near Vienna, where the open-air method
is successfully carried on, were specially designed
for the patients by these doctors, and the pliability
of these couches makes them of double value.

Basket-work, too, has been used for the Pullman
car built at Prague for the Khedive. The whole

WICKER CHAIR DESIGNED BY G. H. FUNKE

EXECUTED IN THE IMPERIAL
PATTERN WORKSHOPS, VIENNA

of the walls are lined with reversible straw matting,
the colours being scarlet, pale blue, and yellow;
while all the fittings and the furniture are of

WICKER CHAIR DESIGNED BY H. VOLLMER

EXECUTED BY PRAG-RUDN IKER

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