Monday, April 6, 2026

Wiener Werkstätte (Designers)

Maria Likarz-Strauss for Wiener Werkstätte
Liliom
1927
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum


Maria Likarz-Strauss for Wiener Werkstätte
Orakel
1924
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Maria Likarz-Strauss for Wiener Werkstätte
Fixstern
1923
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Maria Likarz-Strauss for Wiener Werkstätte
Novelle
1923
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Maria Likarz-Strauss for Wiener Werkstätte
Manna
ca. 1925-27
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Maria Likarz-Strauss for Wiener Werkstätte
Morris
1927
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Maria Likarz-Strauss for Wiener Werkstätte
Morris
1927
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Josef Hoffmann for Wiener Werkstätte
Ozone
1923
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Reni Schaschl-Schuster for Wiener Werkstätte
Menuett
ca. 1920-21
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Reni Schaschl-Schuster for Wiener Werkstätte
Menuett
ca. 1920-21
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Felice Rix-Ueno for Wiener Werkstätte
Marsblume
1923
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Felice Rix-Ueno for Wiener Werkstätte
Malta
1925
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Felice Rix-Ueno for Wiener Werkstätte
Ouvurtüre
1924
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Leopold Blonder for Wiener Werkstätte
Nero
ca. 1911-14
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
 
Leopold Blonder for Wiener Werkstätte
München
ca. 1911-14
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Palatin
1922
graphite on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Palatin
1922
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Hughley Steeple

The vane on Hughley steeple
    Veers bright, a far-known sign,
And there lie Hughley people
    And there lie friends of mine.
Tall in their midst the tower
    Divides the shade and sun,
And the clock strikes the hour
    And tells the time to none.

To south the headstones cluster,
    The sunny mounds lie thick;
The dead are more in muster
    At Hughley than the quick. 
North, for a soon-told number,
    Chill graves the sexton delves,
And steeple-shadowed slumber
    The slayers of themselves. 

To north, to south, lie parted,
    With Hughley tower above,
The kind, the single-hearted,
    The lads I used to love. 
And, south or north, 'tis only
    A choice of friends one knows,
And I shall ne'er be lonely
    Asleep with these or those.

– A.E. Housman (1896)