Host: Japanese Society for the Science of Design
This study attempts to shed new light on the Modern Design movement in Krakow, Poland, by exploring the early activities of the “Krakow Workshops” (1913-1926). The Workshops, a cooperative of artists and craftsmen similar to the “Vienna Workshops”, succeeded the nationalistically characterized applied art movement in Krakow around 1900. The designers aimed for solid production rather than romantic handicrafts. Their design connected both nationalism and Western tendencies and reveals the process of expansion and transformation of the Modern Design movement in Central Europe.
