The Achievements of the Leather Workshop, Sophisticated Design

• Ladies’ Handbag
• Design: Maria Likarz-Strauss (1893–1971)
• Mathilde Flögl (1853–1958)
• Execution: Wiener Werkstätte
• 1929
• Leather, dyed, inlaid
• Ernst Floil, Vienna

Maria Likarz-Strauss debuted as a designer for the Vienna Workshop in 1912 at the remarkable age of nineteen. Her designs use strikingly vivid colors and geometric forms, which distinguish them from contemporary textile designs of floral and vegetal motifs.