DOI issue:
No.233 (August 1912)
DOI article:Levetus, A. S.: Some Viennese flower-stands and vases
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21157#0207
Viennese Flower-Stands
SOME VIENNESE FLOWER-STANDS
AND VASES.
Of late years, as a result of the modem movement in
decorative art, there has been a continually growing interest in
the culture of flowers in Vienna. This is seen in the number
of houses from which flower-boxes depend and the larger
variety of blossoms employed for decoration, while the city
authorities have shown their zeal by adorning the masts
bordering the famous Ringstrasse—the thoroughfare which
engirdles the inner city—with garlands of growing flowers, their
gay hues lending a peculiar touch of brightness to the general
aspect of the road. And while a few years ago floral table
decoration was practically unknown, more and more thought is
now being given to the right use of flowers in the decorative
scheme of the home. This has opened out a new field for the
artist-designer, by causing a demand for suitable vases and
other vessels to hold the flowers. For let it be said at once
that those cheap horrors so often found in middle-class homes
in England are practically unknown to the Viennese. Neither
does there seem any too lavish a desire in the use of flowers ; the
homes are decorated with due restraint and there is never any
pompousness in table decoration. This is in a large measure due
to the fact that the artists themselves take so keen an
interest in the matter. Some time ago a “ Decorated
Table” exhibition was held by the “Wiener Werk-
staette,” at their premises, and it was the first of its
kind to be held on the Continent. Needless to
say there were many who followed in their footsteps,
and it is now accepted as an axiom that the mind
needs artistic pabulum in the same way as the body
does material food.
Moreover, a school ot gardening will shortly be
inaugurated here, so that there will be a new field
FLOWER-STAND OF PERFORATED ZINC, LACQUERED
WHITE. DESIGNED BY PROF. JOSEF HOFFMANN, EXE-
CUTED BY THE WIENER WERKSTAETTE
FLOWER-BASKET OF PERFORATED ZINC,
LACQUERED WHITE. DESIGNED , BY
PROF. JOSEF HOFFMANN, EXECUTED BY
THE WIENER WERKSTAETTE
illU-sss:
FLOWER-BASKET made of perforated zinc,
LACQUERED white. designed by PROF. JOSEF
Hoffmann, executed by the wiener werkstaette
opened out; and this in its turn will, no doubt, lead
to a new employment for women—the decoration of
the home, a function for which they would seem to
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SOME VIENNESE FLOWER-STANDS
AND VASES.
Of late years, as a result of the modem movement in
decorative art, there has been a continually growing interest in
the culture of flowers in Vienna. This is seen in the number
of houses from which flower-boxes depend and the larger
variety of blossoms employed for decoration, while the city
authorities have shown their zeal by adorning the masts
bordering the famous Ringstrasse—the thoroughfare which
engirdles the inner city—with garlands of growing flowers, their
gay hues lending a peculiar touch of brightness to the general
aspect of the road. And while a few years ago floral table
decoration was practically unknown, more and more thought is
now being given to the right use of flowers in the decorative
scheme of the home. This has opened out a new field for the
artist-designer, by causing a demand for suitable vases and
other vessels to hold the flowers. For let it be said at once
that those cheap horrors so often found in middle-class homes
in England are practically unknown to the Viennese. Neither
does there seem any too lavish a desire in the use of flowers ; the
homes are decorated with due restraint and there is never any
pompousness in table decoration. This is in a large measure due
to the fact that the artists themselves take so keen an
interest in the matter. Some time ago a “ Decorated
Table” exhibition was held by the “Wiener Werk-
staette,” at their premises, and it was the first of its
kind to be held on the Continent. Needless to
say there were many who followed in their footsteps,
and it is now accepted as an axiom that the mind
needs artistic pabulum in the same way as the body
does material food.
Moreover, a school ot gardening will shortly be
inaugurated here, so that there will be a new field
FLOWER-STAND OF PERFORATED ZINC, LACQUERED
WHITE. DESIGNED BY PROF. JOSEF HOFFMANN, EXE-
CUTED BY THE WIENER WERKSTAETTE
FLOWER-BASKET OF PERFORATED ZINC,
LACQUERED WHITE. DESIGNED , BY
PROF. JOSEF HOFFMANN, EXECUTED BY
THE WIENER WERKSTAETTE
illU-sss:
FLOWER-BASKET made of perforated zinc,
LACQUERED white. designed by PROF. JOSEF
Hoffmann, executed by the wiener werkstaette
opened out; and this in its turn will, no doubt, lead
to a new employment for women—the decoration of
the home, a function for which they would seem to
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