Spencer Alley: Modernism

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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Wiener Werkstätte (Designers)

Leopold Paradeiser for Wiener Werkstätte
Vera
1919
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Josef Hoffmann for Wiener Werkstätte
Sava and Papagena
1928
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Reni Schaschl-Schuster for Wiener Werkstätte
Troia
ca. 1912-17
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Max Snischek for Wiener Werkstätte
Ziprian
1924
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Reni Schaschl-Schuster for Wiener Werkstätte
Wetterleuchten
ca. 1913-22
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Thymian
ca. 1911-17
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Venusgärtchen
ca. 1911-17
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Julius Zimpel for Wiener Werkstätte
Zwergpalme
1928
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Designer for Wiener Werkstätte
Decorative Paper
before 1932
paste paper (sample sheet)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Designer for Wiener Werkstätte
Akazie
before 1932
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Designer for Wiener Werkstätte
Flocke
before 1932
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Designer for Wiener Werkstätte
Marina
ca. 1911-12
watercolor on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The Isle of Portland

The star-filled seas are smooth to-night

From France to England strown;

Black towers above the Portland light

The felon-quarried stone.

On yonder island, not to rise,

Never to stir forth free,

Far from his folk a dead lad lies

That once was friends with me.

Lie you easy, dream you light,

And sleep you fast for aye;

And luckier may you find the night

Than ever you found day.

– A.E. Housman (1896)

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Wiener Werkstätte (Designers)

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

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Thymian
ca. 1911-17
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Felice Rix-Ueno for Wiener Werkstätte
Pelargonie
ca. 1913-16
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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

Felice Rix-Ueno for Wiener Werkstätte
Sylvester
1922
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Felice Rix-Ueno for Wiener Werkstätte
Sommerwinde
1922
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Valerie Wieselthier for Wiener Werkstätte
Quadern
ca. 1916-19
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Max Snischek for Wiener Werkstätte
Phantom
1924
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Max Snischek for Wiener Werkstätte
Syrakus
1928
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Max Snischek for Wiener Werkstätte
Sport
1928
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Josef Hoffmann for Wiener Werkstätte
Tenor
1928
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Josef Hoffmann for Wiener Werkstätte
Rhombus
ca. 1910-12
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Now hollow fires burn out to black,

And lights are guttering low:

Square your shoulders, lift your pack,

And leave your friends and go.

Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,

Look not left nor right:

In all the endless road you tread

There's nothing but the night.

– A.E. Housman (1896)

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

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

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)