Austria - WW - Wiener Werkstätte
A financier was required to implement the idea of an association for arts and crafts. Josef Hoffmann and Kolo Moser found a financier in the banker Fritz Waerndorfer.

In 1903 the "Wiener Werkstätte Produktivgenossenschaft von Kunsthandwerkern" ("Viennese Workshops Co-operative of Craftsmen") was established. Its aim was to promote the economic interests of its members

- by training them as craftsmen
- by producing crafted articles of all kinds according to artistic designs by members of the
- co-operative-
- and by constructing workshops and selling the articles produced Offices, exhibition rooms and workshops were set up in an empty factory.

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From a catalogue dated 1928 - the spectrum of WW production is documented here. Photo: Katalog / Olga Kronsteiner