Studio: international art (56.1912)

Viennese Flower-Stands

FLOWER-STAND OF SILVER SET WITH MALACHITE AND CORALS. DESIGNED BY
PROF. JOSEF HOFFMANN, EXECUTED BY THE WIENER WERKSTAETTE

in white lacquer. The
work bears those distin-
guishing qualities charac-
teristic of everything Prof.
Hoffmann creates, for his
chief enjoyment consists
in unconsciously pro-
ducing original, refined,
and meditative objects.
He, too, is the inspirer of
the workmanship, which
everywhere shows how
thoroughly the craftsman
has understood and
valued the artist’s de-
signs. There is_a certain

be naturally adapted, but
which is too often ignored
in the education of girls.

In the meantime it is
curious to note that it is
the male artists who, until
now, have given the most
thought to floral recep-
tacles, among them Profs.
Josef Hoffmann, Kolo
Moser, Otto Prutscher, and
others of like ken, whose
high ideals in art are every-
where recognised. It was
Prof. Hoffmann who first
recognised how valuable a
material perforated zinc
would be for decorative
use, and more especially
for floral purposes. He let
his imagination — always
rightly tempered — have
full play, with the result
that not alone was a new
line opened out in art, but
also in manufacture. Some
idea of the. variety and
beauty of his designs may
be gathered from the three
reproduced on p. 185.
Out of the simple metal
the artist has made a thing
of beauty; nothing at the
same time could be more
simple than these pierced
zinc flower-baskets clothed
186

SILVER FLOWER-STAND WITH CORAL BEADING. DESIGNED BY PROF. JOSEF
HOFFMANN, EXECUTED BY THE WIENER WERKSTAETTE

GLASS FLOWER-STAND WITH GILT ORNAMENT AND SILVER MOUNT. DESIGNED
BY PROF. OTTO PRUTSCHER, EXECUTED BY THE WIENER WERKSTAETTE