Deluxe fabric-covered portfolio of surface designs

Moser, Koloman. Flächenschmuck.

€ 20,000.00

A cornerstone of Viennese decorative modernism and a key source for later Wiener Werkstätte practice, here in the rare deluxe binding variant.

In "Flächenschmuck", Kolo Moser gathers thirty colour lithographic plates of surface ornaments for wall decoration, furnishing textiles, endpapers, wallpapers, floor coverings, and related applications, many reduced to two colours and heightened with touches of gold. As Moser himself noted, the portfolio was conceived as a "compendium of his best graphic designs since his beginnings", and it records his passage from the luxuriant idiom of the late 1890s to the squared, geometric discipline of the early twentieth century. The versos supply additional patterns in grey and white, extending the repertoire in a quieter register.