Studio: international art (52.1911)

The " Wiener Werkstatte ^ Vienna

The latest addition to
the Werkstatte is the
department where such
apparent trivialities as
" fashions " are created ;
for it is rightly conceived
that women's dress plays
an important part in
the decorative scheme
of the home. Edward
Wimmer, an artist in
every way original and
essentially decorative, is
the head of this depart-
ment ; and the fore-
woman is Fraulein
Marianne Zeis, a pupil
of Prof. Bohm, and,
moreover, a schooled

side view of the cover illustrated below

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a printing department, although
they have one for bookbinding,
of which we will speak later.

A visit to the workshops is of
great interest. The tone is ex-
cellent, nobody is in a hurry, and
there is perfect harmony every-
where. Each room bears its own
peculiar colour—blue, grey, red,
as the case may be—and all the
business books connected with a
particular workshop are bound in
a like tint. This ensures a great
saving of labour, for it can be
seen at a glance to which depart-
ment a book belongs.

The Wiener Werkstatte may
not, as already mentioned, print
their own books, but they have
a bindery in which excellent work
is done—of course by hand.
Only the finest Morocco leather
is used, this being either tooled
or inlaid with gold after the
designs of Prof. Hoffmann, Prof.
Czeschka, or some other artist.
The head of the bookbindery
is a master bookbinder named
Beitel, an artist in his own par-
ticular line. In another shop
men are engaged in making
ladies' leather hand-bags and

. cover for congratulatory address to the queen of

blotting-cases, everything being roumania, designed by proe. kolo moser, executed by the

made by hand. wiener werkstatte

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