Alfred Roller Preface (1 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. Review Copy. Octavo. 359 (20)pp., X plates. Original ochre cloth with gilt lettering on covers and spine, protected by modern mylar. Lightly textured cream endpapers. Title page printed in red and black, stamped "Recensie Exemplaar" with N. V. Boekh. v.h. W. P. van Stockum & Zoon label pasted below red publisher's device. Cover design by Josef Hoffmann. Welcome addresses by Dr. Hainisch, Trade Minister and Ex-President, Alfred Roller, Director of the Vienna Arts % Craft School, and Josef Hoffmann, architect and head of Planning Department. Elaborate publication introducing Austrian arts & crafts, including the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (Wiener Werkstätte), its extensive curriculum and faculty, including Franz Cizek and Josef Hoffmann and the products created in various departments, the Vienna Porcelain Factory Augarten and other branches like tapestry, carpets, silk, chairs and small furniture, glass and silver products, jewelry, a piano by Joseph Frank, built by Bösendorfer, clothing, fashion, ceramics, accessories, cabinets, lamps, typography, posters, and iron work. The guide is profusely illustrated with b/w photographs of products throughout. Ten color plates depict the work of Michael Powolny (ceramic), Lucia Stadelmeyer and Elsa Engel-Meinfelden (ornamental fabric), an original design for toys by Emmy Zweybrück-Prochaska, rendered lithographically with gilt decorative overlay, Joseph Binder (poster), Ernst Ludwig Franke (poster), Ernst Ludwig Franke (corporate logos, two plates, Otto Exinger (poster), Atelier Kosel (poster), and Gaertner and Klose (two designs for posters). Contains list of Institutes, Schools and Museums and epilogs by Hainisch, Hoffmann and Roller, indices by subject and names and tables of illustrations as well as addresses and bibliography. With twenty pages of advertisement at rear, some of them illustrated. Text in German, French and English. Binding with very light wear along edges and lightly rubbed. Stamped "Recensie Exemplar on front free endpaper and title page. Starting slightly at page 161. Original watercolor with slight thumbprints at corners, not affecting image.