Metamorphoses: the interiors and furniture of Dagobert Peche - designer

Magazine Antiques, Oct, 2002 by Anne-Katrin Rossberg

(9.) Letter from Peche, Vienna, to Junger, c. 1918 (inv. no. K. I. 15021/7, MAK).

(10.) Letter from Peche, Vienna, to Made Primavesi, 1922 (private collection). The recipient was the wife of Otto Primavesi, a financial contributor to the Wiener Werkstatte after Wamdorfer left in 1914.

(11.) Letter from Peche, Vienna, to Junger, 1915 (inv. no. K I. 1502 1/6, MAK).

(12.) A view of the showroom is illustrated in Janis Staggs-Flinchum, Dagobert Peche," The Magazine ANTIQUES, vol. 155, no. 1 (January 1999), p. 190, Fig. 2.

(13.) Frank, "Neue Arbeiten von Dagobert Peche," p. 77.

(14.) Eisler, Dagohert Peche, p. 29, notes that Peche was reading this book.

(15.) Lucian of Samosate, Lucian's True History, trans. Francis Hickes (London, 1894). Beardsley was one of three illustrators of this edition.

(16.) Eisler, Dagobert Peche, p. 10.

(17.) Letter from Kumo Peche, Oberndorf bei Salzburg, to Philip Hausler, the former director of the Wiener Werkstatte, August 21, 1961, in which he describes his last meeting with his elder brother Dagobert. At that time Dagobert said he was no longer satisfied with his work, stating "one should expand, work for people of small means as well" (Hausler papers, autograph collection, Wiener Stadt-und Landesbibliothek, Vienna).

ANNE-KATRIN ROSSBERG is an assistant to the curator of the furniture department at MAK- Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst in Vienna. She was cocurator of the exhibition Die Uberwindung der Utilitat--Dagobert Peche und die Wiener Werkstatte (Overcoming the utilitarian--Dagobert Peche und the Wiener Werkstatte) held at the museum in 1998.

Translated from the Gennan by Bruni Mayor