The beauty of Wiener Werkstätte jewelry — the first products made after the workshops began, in 1903 — lies in the way it blurs the line between precious ornament and miniature sculpture. Seeing jewelry as art was central to the Wiener Werkstätte philosophy. Its ideal was the gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, in which all elements of art, design and craft cohered into a visually unified entity. [+][++]

Hoffmann Brooch 1908