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Article: Focus on: the jewel of the Wiener Werkstätte (1903)

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Focus on : le bijou de la Wiener Werkstätte (1903)

Focus on: the jewel of the Wiener Werkstätte (1903)

The Wiener Werkstätte is an Austrian association founded in 1903 by Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser and Leopold Bauer. Its goal: to create independently in the fields of architecture, decorative arts, entertainment, but also jewelry. WW jewelry is a sweet mix between German Jugendstil and French Art Nouveau: geometric rigor, a taste for color contrast and an attraction to silver and vermeil. The designers use floral motifs in the shape of hazelnuts or hearts, as well as coral for decorative gems (a legacy of Bohemian folklore). Thus, artists such as Koloman Moser, Oskar Dietrich, Franz Delavilla are more of the German vein. While Rozet & Fischmeister, Josef Hoffmann and Carl-Otto Czeschka lean towards French Art Nouveau.

Vienna Secession cigarette case attributed to K.Moser ©Tadema Gallery

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Focus on : Gérard Sandoz (1902-1995)

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Gérard Sandoz comes from a large family of jewelers, he began designing jewelry models at a very early age and quickly became one of the inventors of "modern jewelry" in the mid-1920s. His creatio...

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