Jacques and Jacqueline Groag, Architect and Designer: Two Hidden Figures of the Viennese Modern Movement
Ursula Prokop
DoppelHouse Press, June 2019

Hardcover | 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 272 pages | English (Translated from German by Jonee Tiedemann and Laura McGuire) | 978-0999754436 | $39.95

Publisher Description:
Ursula Prokop?s meticulous history restores Jacques and Jacqueline Groag to their rightful places in the pantheon of Viennese Modernists. Prokop explores their individual careers in Vienna and Czechoslovakia, their early collaborations in the 1930s, their lives as Jewish émigrés, and the couple?s unique contributions in Britain for postwar exhibitions, monuments, furniture and textile design.

In Vienna, the Groags studied and worked within a circle of notables including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Adolf Loos, Paul Engelmann, Josef Hoffmann, and Franz ?i?ek, as well as others at the Wiener Werkstätte. Jacques Groag?s solutions to Vienna?s housing crisis, his painterly use of materials and color, his ingenious interior designs for space-saving furniture in small apartments and insights into the construction of the Wittgenstein house (he was the engineer) are discussed as well as Jacqueline Groag?s rise as an influential designer in Britain, creating textiles for Heal?s, British Rail, and airlines, and?as a Royal Designer for Industry in 1984?even a dress for the future-queen Elizabeth.
Full color edition with images of recently found extant works, previously unpubli...