Publisher: KANT, ISBN: 9788074374296, Author: Christopher Long, Format: Hardcover, 22.9 x 14.6 cm, 128pp

In this title, architectural historian Christopher Long examines how, over the course of the seven years preceding World War I, three leading Viennese modernists – Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos and Oskar Strnad – redefined the idea of the modern interior. This book follows the progress of their debates and works, and how each designer sought to frame his own distinctive vision of living. The result was a split between the imperatives of style, function and livability that is still in play today.

While their building designs shaped Vienna’s urban landscape and exemplified the famous Secession movement, these three architects also applied their eclectic principles to domestic interiors, or Wohnkultur (meaning “living” or “dwelling culture”).