Author: NOEVER Peter - MAK Vienna ( editor ) :
Title: Yearning for Beauty. The Wiener Werkstätte and the Stoclet House. Edited by Peter Noever / Mak Vienna. Etienne Davignon , Paul Dujardin , Amme Mommens / Centre for Fine Arts Brussels. 2 vols.
Description: .: 5. Vienna (Wien ) - Brussels , MAK, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006, 2 vols. in-4°, 452 pp, coloured and black/white ills., index, text in English. Remarkable silvercoloured publisher's binding with 5 mm high lettering and the WW initials on the front cover, all edges silver coloured giving the book a solid block appearence. In a cut-away at the front fly leaves; a fac-simile booklet of the Wiener Werkstätte working program 1905. The second volume contains the translations of some catalogue texts in French and Dutch. Published on the occasion of an exhibition in Brussels. The Stoclet house in Brussels, still standing untouched, in private ownership, is perhaps the finest example of a ''Gesamtkunstwerk'' created by the Wiener Werkstätte. The house was designed by Jozef Hoffmann and much of the wall decoration was made by Gustav Klimt. .

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