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Josef Hoffmann

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Our aim is to create an island of tranquility in our own country which, amid the joyful hum of arts and crafts, would be welcome to anyone who professes faith in Ruskin and Morris.
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Declaration in work programme of Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop, 1903)

 
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