On November 17, 2008 I hosted an design event at the Neue Gallery in NYC, a museum devoted to early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design. We were given a private tour of the museum before opening hours and then had lunch in museum's Cafe Sabarsky.
The museum building, a masterpiece in its own right, is a former Vanderbilt residence and New York landmark designated building completed in 1914 by Carrère & Hastings, architects of the New York Public Library. It was lovingly restored and renovated in the 1990s in preparation of the opening of the Neue Gallery.
The museum's Wiener Werkstätte collection includes furniture and decorative items by such well-known figures as Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser and by such celebrated architects as Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner. Other museum highlights include the Gustav Klimt portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (shown above).
Stay tuned for upcoming events like these!
