Viennese Design & the Wiener Werkstatte

This guide to the arts and crafts of fin-de-siècle Vienna is an excellent introduction to the subject in all media - from architecture, furniture, ceramics, and glass, to silver, fashion, and textiles, bookbinding, toys, painting, and the graphic arts - as well as a survey of the cultural development of this pivotal period. Features the work of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Josef Hofmann and Dagobert Peche amongst many other.