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Collection Guide: Carlo Marchionni

Collection Guide: Carlo Marchionni

– Elizabeth Kieven

The text below has been translated and adapted from the catalogue Chiese e Cappelle: Un Volume di Progetti di Carlo Marchionni, written by Professor Elizabeth Kieven for Carlo Virgilio & Co and published in 2010. Professor Kieven has also added new commentaries on five drawings held in the Drawing Matter Collection… Read More

Collection Guide: The Viennese School

Collection Guide: The Viennese School

– Iain Boyd Whyte

Drawing Matter’s collection of Viennese drawings from the 19th and early 20th century includes works by Franz Jakob Kreuter, Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann, Otto Schönthal, Emil Hoppe, and Friedrich Ohmann, among others. It was a time of great technological advance, social upheaval, cultural revolt, and changing attitudes to design.  Considered as a group, the… Read More