A Century of Glass

Linas Alsenas -- Interior Design, 8/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Glass enthusiasts take note: Over 400 European and American glass objects are being presented, many for the first time, in Vienna by the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in an exhibition of its own collection. Reassembled: Glass 1860–1960, One Hundred Years of Design is the first complete presentation of the MAK's Glass Study Collection holdings from this period. Organized under the stylistic epochs of historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and the 1950s, this survey includes designers such as Louis Comfort Tiffany, René Lalique, Baccarat, and Émile Gallé, and factories such as Orrefors und Kosta, Holmegaards Glasvaerk, and the Imperial Russian Glass Manufacture. Reassembled will be on view through June 2, 2002. MAK, Stubenring 5, A-1010 Wien; (43-1) 711 360; www.mak.at.