Around 1900, the Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur Josef Böck began its collaboration with students working with Koloman Moser at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. The designs created by his students were executed at the school or in German and Austrian manufactories. One of the most talented of these young designers was Jutta Sika. An identical example of this tea service was displayed at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Arts in Turn, Italy, in 1902.
Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser cofounded the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), a designers’ cooperative active from 1903 to 1932. Using the principles of the British Arts and Crafts Movement, the Wiener Werkstätte provided well-designed, often handmade objects for a sophisticated and wealthy clientele. The workshops had departments for metalworking, bookbinding, leatherwork, cabinetmaking, glass, and ceramics, as well as an architectural office. A few years later, departments for printing, fashion, and textiles were added.
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