The Patronage of Modernism in Vienna One of the tropes of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna is the contradiction within the culture. The regime with its outmoded and ineffectual monarchy represented a long-dead past and the members of the court and the governing bodies of the...
Pre-War Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna The Last of the Old: The Ringstraße To understand Vienna, the heart and soul of Austria, the seat of the aging but glitzy Austro-Hungarian Empire, it is necessary to understand the Ringstraße, an urban development project that...
The Willow Tea Rooms At the University of Glasgow Archive Services, a cramped and spare entry on “Cranston’s Tea Rooms Ltd, reads, Catherine Cranston owned four tea shops in Glasgow, Scotland, at the beginning of the 20th century. The most famous of these...
The Willow Tea Rooms One could argue that there were two significant designers who ushered in the Modern. Working at the end of the nineteenth century, Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) took the ordinary object of everyday life, teapots, sugar bowls. creamers, toast...
Squaring the Circle Modernizing the Teapot A third generation modern designer, Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) was the successor to the great British reform designer, Owen Jones, who had been the successor to William Morris. Dresser was a prolific designer and much of...
Remaking the Teapot The Story of English Tea Along with beer and ale, tea is the national drink of England and Ireland, not the mention the former English colonies. The America Revolution was sparked off by an ill-considered tax on tea, a daily necessity and we all...
