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Model shown at the Exposition International des Arts Dècoratifs et Industries Modernes, Paris, 1925, no cat.
Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO April 14– August 19, 2012; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, October 13, 2012– February 24, 2013, New Orleans Museum of Art, April 12– August 4, 2013; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, September 9, 3013– January 19, 2014, cat. no. 151.
This tea service is made from tarnish-resistant, rhodium-plated silver and ivory. The lobed forms and pumpkin-like ivory finials reflect the interest of Austrian architect and designer Josef Hoffmann in organic and natural shapes. Hoffmann founded the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops) in 1903. Producing impeccably crafted, everyday objects made from fine materials, the workshops embodied Hoffmann’s design ideals.
With Historical Design, New York, by 2003;
Purchased from Historical Design, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2003.
Drawings illustrated, Peter Noever and Hanna Egger. Josef Hoffmann Designs (Munich: Prestel, 1992), 97, 133-134 (repro.).
Newsletter (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) (May-June 2004): 1-2 (repro.).
Spaces Magazine, (October/November 2005): 66 (repro.).
Catherine Futter, Jason T. Busch, et al. Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939 (Pittsburgh, PA: Kansas City, MO: New York: Carnegie Museum of Art; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Skira Rizzoli, 2012), 227-229 (repro.).
Reynolds, Brandon R., “ART MATTERS: The Vases Are Talking,” 435 South, The Magazine of South Johnson County, vol. 7, no. 10 (May 2012):66-69, 68 (repro.).
