{"id":20033,"date":"2025-01-18T23:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T22:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20033"},"modified":"2025-01-18T23:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T22:43:06","slug":"daily_3609_-_wiener_werkstatte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/01\/18\/daily_3609_-_wiener_werkstatte\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3609 &#8211; Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to see an exhibition of the work of Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte, at Millesg\u00e5rden. (A workshop &#8220;dedicated to the artistic production of utilitarian items in a wide range of media, including metalwork, leatherwork, bookbinding, woodworking, ceramics, postcards and graphic art, and jewelry&#8221;, in Wien from 1903 to 1932.)<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition was full of luxurious, beautiful objects, designed and made for a very different time. Their style must have felt radical back then. But I can see why they went bankrupt.<\/p>\n<p>The story about the cooperative workshop and their ideology of <i>Gesamtkunstwerk<\/i> and raising design and craftsmanship to be equal with art was interesting. I couldn&#8217;t make sense of their actual design principles, though.<\/p>\n<p>The first parts of the exhibition present them as valuing function strictly above ornamentation &#8211; furniture with pared-down lines, much black and white, logos and graphical design with pure geometric forms only.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3609_Wiener_Werkstatte_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But then the bar of the Fledermaus cabaret &#8211; reconstructed in its full glory &#8211; is almost psychedelic in comparison.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3609_Wiener_Werkstatte_1.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an austere black-and-white masquerade gown, next to a wallpaper embroidery design that is all full of extra everything. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3609_Wiener_Werkstatte_2.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3609_Wiener_Werkstatte_4.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pretty, but also confusing and thus somehow unsatisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to see an exhibition of the work of Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte, at Millesg\u00e5rden. (A workshop &#8220;dedicated to the artistic production of utilitarian items in a wide range of media, including metalwork, leatherwork, bookbinding, woodworking, ceramics, postcards and graphic art, and jewelry&#8221;, in Wien from 1903 to 1932.) The exhibition was full of luxurious, beautiful objects, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20033"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20039,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033\/revisions\/20039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}