Arnoldsche - WMF Ikora Metall - Metalwork - 2006
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Metalware in the Ikora range by WMF, an Applied Art piece with an estimated period from the 1920s to the 1960s.
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264 pages
24 x 30 cm, 230 illustrations in colour and black-and-white and 300 illustrations taken from original company catalogues featuring thousands of metal objects. Hardback.
English / German
This publication draws on sales catalogs and advertising brochures documenting the entire range of Ikora metalwork produced by WMF (Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG, Geislingen) from the early 1920s until the 1960s. Even during the first world war, Hugo Debach, who would later become director-general of WMF, took the initiative in having experiments conducted in chemical and thermal tinting of metals. Shortly before 1927 he founded the Neue Kunstgewerbliche Abteilung (NKA: New Division for the Applied Arts) at WMF for upgrading metals. The brilliant colors and the boundless possibilities for design arising from this new technique met with resounding success at the time. Now pieces of Ikora metalwork by WMF are coveted as valuable collectors' items. The name Ikora, borrowed from a plant with brilliantly-hued flowers endemic to South-east Asia and sacred to the goddess Ixora, was designed to express the costly and exclusive quality of this line in metal products.
Text in English and German.
264 pages
24 x 30 cm, 230 illustrations in colour and black-and-white and 300 illustrations taken from original company catalogues featuring thousands of metal objects. Hardback.
English / German
This publication draws on sales catalogs and advertising brochures documenting the entire range of Ikora metalwork produced by WMF (Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG, Geislingen) from the early 1920s until the 1960s. Even during the first world war, Hugo Debach, who would later become director-general of WMF, took the initiative in having experiments conducted in chemical and thermal tinting of metals. Shortly before 1927 he founded the Neue Kunstgewerbliche Abteilung (NKA: New Division for the Applied Arts) at WMF for upgrading metals. The brilliant colors and the boundless possibilities for design arising from this new technique met with resounding success at the time. Now pieces of Ikora metalwork by WMF are coveted as valuable collectors' items. The name Ikora, borrowed from a plant with brilliantly-hued flowers endemic to South-east Asia and sacred to the goddess Ixora, was designed to express the costly and exclusive quality of this line in metal products.
Text in English and German.
Details
Number of Books
1
Subject
Applied art
Book Title
WMF Ikora Metall - Metalwork
Author/ Illustrator
Arnoldsche
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
2006
Height
300 mm
Edition
1st Edition
Width
24 mm
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Number of pages
264
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