Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design by Sabine Wieber;

Author:Sabine Wieber;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781350088535
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

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Fashionable taste at Elsa Bruckmann’s salon

We arrive home. Through the small garden gate we go, where the acacia stands, then past the old lime tree with the thick branches and the bench underneath.

Peaceful, lost in a dream our house sleeps.

H. Elgo aka Elsa Bruckmann Cantacuzènes (1896)1

One of Germany’s leading interior design journals, Dekorative Kunst, featured three separate articles in 1899 that introduced readers to a group of young designers from Glasgow, Scotland.2 Their names were Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928), Frances (1873–1921) Margaret Macdonald (1864–1933), and Herbert McNair (1868–1955). Today, the group is famously known as the Glasgow Four, and its members are widely celebrated for their pioneering contributions to modern architecture and design. But at the time, they were virtually unheard of outside their hometown, and German critics were excited about the prospects of such a dynamic design culture emerging from the far reaches of Scotland. Two of the essays in Dekorative Kunst were illustrated with photographs of the group’s recent work. One set of photographs stood out because it showcased a fully furbished interior by Charles Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald rather than presenting individual design objects (Figures 35 and 36). Readers must have been astonished to find out that this thoroughly modern interior was in the Munich home of Hugo and Elsa Bruckmann rather than somewhere in Scotland. This chapter explores the compelling cross-cultural context for the Glasgow Four’s Munich commission and draws attention to Elsa Bruckmann’s pivotal role as a prominent supporter of modern design whose regular soirées provided a fertile seedbed for Jugendstil and the formation of upper-middle-class taste.

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