MAK (Museum of Applied Arts)

Our last museum visit was at the Museum of Applied Arts and especially its "Vienna 1900" permanent collection. Vienna has so many fine arts museums relatively few visitors get to the MAK. We found it eminently worthwhile. Discount admission on Tuesday evenings, too.

Facade of main hall; beautiful 19th century building

Interior; Pompeii painting decor on the ceilings; nevermind the
huge over-sized couch on the main floor; it will figure in a later
post

Ceiling; we visited in the evening, so didn't get the
full effect

Humongous marquetry restoration project being done out on the
floor of the cabinetry exhibit room

Main attraction

Josef Hoffman, Cabinet Presented at the 1st Secession

Exhibition, 1898; if Darth Vader were a cabinet, he would

look like this, Vicki says

Poster...

Tony Selmersheim, Petroleum Lamp, 1900

Beautiful silver tray; guess I was too overwhelmed to get the designer's
name

Henry van de Velde, Writing Desk, 1900

Adolf Loos, Corner Seating for a Study, 1900; way before "less is
more"

Theodore Pogacnik, Wine Mug, 1900

Alfons Mucha, Poster for Austria exhibit at the Paris, 1900,
World Fair

Kolomon Moser, Guestroom from House Moser, 1901; so comfy, 
warm, and inviting...we're now clearly out of art nouveau

Klimt, part of nine "drawings" for a house in Brussels, 1910

Josef Hoffman, Tea Service, 1903

Kolomon Moser, Jewelry Box, 1906

Josef Hoffman, Chandelier, 1914

More of the Klimt drawings...

Much of a wall

The big thrill for us...Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, The Seven
Princesses, 1908, for a house in her native Glasgow

Detail: note the Mackintosh roses

And then it was all over...

Dagobert Peche, Display Cabinet, 1920

We also took in a couple special exhibits, one on the
picture book as artistic medium

That was fabulous

And another rounding up the 100 best posters of 2021 from
Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Personal favorite: "Measure Everything: Know Your
Numbers"; great museum experience