Digitally leafing through an old catalog about art and design from Vienna's Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) I came across this illustration....Patchwork pillows as hot new design in 1916.
I've posted about the influence of the German early-20th-century design workshop the Bauhaus and how their modern style parallels quilt design.
A shop selling crafts from the Wiener Werkstatte
at a time when ruffled
Priscilla curtains were cutting edge decor.
The pillows above from the Austrian workshop show the same parallels between patchwork quilts and modernism.
WW Designers made good use of the simplest shapes
In ceramics
In interior design.
Is that polkadot item a stove????
In fashion.
( I posted about the artist Mela Koehler recently.)
And textiles
Here's the best source on the textiles,
Angela Volker's book Textiles of the Wiener Werkstatte
A few quilts the Viennese avant garde would have enjoyed displaying.
Early 20th century
Mid 20th century
Early 20th century
Mid twentieth century
Twentieth century Amish
Early twentieth century
The catalog with the black and white illustrations above is
Österreichische Werkkultur By Max Eisler, Österreichischer Werkbund, Vienna, 1916.
Read it at Google Bookshttp://books.google.com/books?id=xHkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA192&dq=%22mela+koehler%22&hl=en&ei=vV08TZ6PKYrcgQe2joiLCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22mela%20koehler%22&f=false
Read more about the Wiener Werkstatte here
http://www.gseart.com/exhibitions.asp?ExhID=406
My guess is this postcard says:
Viennese cafe; the intellectual.
Post Script: Annelies in the comments translates:
Der Litterat is not an intellectual, it is a second-rate writer.
His sheet of paper is empty so I think this one hasn't much inspiration.
Thanks!
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