Exhibition View Showroom Wiener Werkstätte: A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades

© MAK/Georg Mayer

Showroom Wiener Werkstätte

A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades

More space for the Wiener Werkstätte (WW): in the room above the MAK Permanent Collection Vienna 1900, this famous institution takes center stage and is receiving a lot of attention thanks to the engagement of a contemporary artist with its wide range of products—furniture, textiles, wallpapers, and metalware.

6.10.2021—2.10.2022

Wiener Werkstätte Room

The London designer Michael Anastassiades has been invited to select exhibits from the MAK’s inventory and in particular he has had the opportunity of delving into the high-profile collection of WW expert Ernst Ploil.

Michael Anastassiades is primarily known as a designer of lighting fixtures, though he also works in many other sectors (glassware for J. & L. Lobmeyr and furniture for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna). In addition, he is active in exhibition and interior design. For the SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE he has also developed a special display in which he uses his own products and stylistic elements to create an astonishingly alienating setting for the WW exhibits.

CURATORS
Guest Curator/Exhibition Design: Michael Anastassiades, Designer
Curator: Anne-Katrin Rossberg, Curator, MAK Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive

Exhibition View Showroom Wiener Werkstätte: A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades

© MAK/Georg Mayer

The MAK is the Austrian project partner of the Interreg project ARTNOUVEAU2. This exhibition is supported by funds from the European Union (ERDF, IPA II), INTERREG Danube Transnational Programme in the context of the project ARTNOUVEAU2.

Media

<BODY>The MAK is the Austrian project partner of the Interreg project ARTNOUVEAU2. This exhibition is supported by funds from the European Union (ERDF, IPA II), INTERREG Danube Transnational Programme in the context of the project ARTNOUVEAU2.</BODY>

The MAK is the Austrian project partner of the Interreg project ARTNOUVEAU2. This exhibition is supported by funds from the European Union (ERDF, IPA II), INTERREG Danube Transnational Programme in the context of the project ARTNOUVEAU2.

<BODY><div><div>Michael Anastassiades, Ball Vase 3, London, 2006</div><div>Brass</div><div>© Michael Anastassiades</div><div> </div></div><br /></BODY>

Michael Anastassiades, Ball Vase 3, London, 2006

Brass

© Michael Anastassiades

<BODY><div>Koloman Moser, Inkstand, 1903</div><div>Execution: WW/Konrad Schindel</div><div>Nickel silver, hammered; iridescent glass</div><div>Ernst Ploil Collection</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div><div> </div></BODY>

Koloman Moser, Inkstand, 1903

Execution: WW/Konrad Schindel

Nickel silver, hammered; iridescent glass

Ernst Ploil Collection

© MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div><div>Josef Hoffmann, Sewing table from the furnishings for Dr. Hermann Wittgenstein, 1905 </div><div>Oak, stained black, with pores filled white; tombak, blue silk</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div><div> </div></div><br /></BODY>

Josef Hoffmann, Sewing table from the furnishings for Dr. Hermann Wittgenstein, 1905

Oak, stained black, with pores filled white; tombak, blue silk

© MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div>Koloman Moser, Sliding table from the dressing room of the Eisler von Terramare apartment, 1902/03</div><div>Execution: Caspar Hrazdil (?)</div><div>Maple, natural and stained dark; nickel mounts</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div><div> </div></BODY>

Koloman Moser, Sliding table from the dressing room of the Eisler von Terramare apartment, 1902/03

Execution: Caspar Hrazdil (?)

Maple, natural and stained dark; nickel mounts

© MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div>Josef Hoffmann, Flower vase, 1908</div><div>© MAK</div><div> </div></BODY>

Josef Hoffmann, Flower vase, 1908

© MAK

<BODY><div>Josef Hoffmann or Koloman Moser, Toolbox no. 4 from the WW furniture workshop, 1904</div><div>Softwood, painted blue</div><div>Ernst Ploil Collection</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div><div> </div></BODY>

Josef Hoffmann or Koloman Moser, Toolbox no. 4 from the WW furniture workshop, 1904

Softwood, painted blue

Ernst Ploil Collection

© MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div>Michael Anastassiades, Stilleben Dansk Møbelkunst, Paris 2016</div><div>© Rene Habermacher</div></BODY>

Michael Anastassiades, Stilleben Dansk Møbelkunst, Paris 2016

© Rene Habermacher

<BODY><div>MAK Exhibition View, 2021</div><div>SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE</div><div>A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades</div><div>MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div></BODY>

MAK Exhibition View, 2021

SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades

MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art

© MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div>MAK Exhibition View, 2021</div><div>SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE</div><div>A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades</div><div>MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div><div> </div></BODY>

MAK Exhibition View, 2021

SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades

MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art

© MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div>MAK Exhibition View, 2021</div><div>SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE</div><div>A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades</div><div>MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div><div> </div></BODY>

MAK Exhibition View, 2021

SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades

MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art

© MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div>MAK Exhibition View, 2021</div><div>SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE</div><div>A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades</div><div>MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div><div> </div></BODY>

MAK Exhibition View, 2021

SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades

MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art

© MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div>MAK Exhibition View, 2021</div><div>SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE</div><div>A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades</div><div>MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div><div> </div></BODY>

MAK Exhibition View, 2021

SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades

MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art

© MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div>MAK Exhibition View, 2021</div><div>SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE</div><div>A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades</div><div>MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div></BODY>

Exhibition View Showroom Wiener Werkstätte: A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades © MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div>MAK Exhibition View, 2021</div><div>SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE</div><div>A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades</div><div>MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div></BODY>

MAK Exhibition View, 2021

SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades

MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art

© MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div>MAK Exhibition View, 2021</div><div>SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE</div><div>A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades</div><div>MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div></BODY>

MAK Exhibition View, 2021

SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades

MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art

© MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div>MAK Exhibition View, 2021</div><div>SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE</div><div>A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades</div><div>MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div></BODY>

MAK Exhibition View, 2021

SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades

MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art

© MAK/Georg Mayer

<BODY><div> </div><div> </div><div>MAK Exhibition View, 2021</div><div>SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE</div><div>A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades</div><div>in the front: Josef Hoffmann, Women’s dress for a masquerade ball, ca. 1910</div><div>MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div><div> </div></BODY>

MAK Exhibition View, 2021

SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades

in the front: Josef Hoffmann, Women’s dress for a masquerade ball, ca. 1910

MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art

© MAK/Georg Mayer