This richly illustrated study examines the Wiener Werkstätte, founded in Vienna in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser and financier Fritz Waerndorfer. The workshop sought to unite artistic design and skilled craftsmanship across architecture, furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, metalwork, jewellery and graphic design. The book explores its ambition to create a coherent Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, in which objects and interiors formed a unified aesthetic environment. It traces the workshop's development, its principal designers and its contribution to Viennese modernism through the period ending in 1932. (AI-generated content description)