The Art of Design Issue 28 2017 | Page 70

70 WOKA LAMPS VIENNA WOKA LAMPS Vienna is a Vienna-based Manufacturer of Iconic 20th A collection of very rare antiques of the early 20th century as well Century Lighting Design. Lovers of iconic lamps from the early 20th as a large collection of chandeliers from the 18th century until the century were for decades deprived of the possibility of owning 1960’s is completing the business of the WOKA GALLERY. On request some of the most striking pieces by the wiener Werkstatte and the all ant iques and pieces of arts are delivered with an expertise made Bauhaus, which had long fallen out of production. out by a certified appraiser for art and antiqueson the commercial court in Vienna. The designers whose work WOKA is licensed to produce read like a who’s who of the Vienna design pantheon. Due to WOKA’s extraordinary achievement, in 2016 the minister for economic affairs and Vice Chancellor of the Austrian Republic In addition to Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, the manufactures Reinhold Mitterlehner, has awarded Woka Lamps Vienna with the has reissued striking table, ceiling, wall and floor lamps, as well as right to use the Austrian Coat of Arms in matters of Business. chandelier pieces, by the likes of Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner and Carl Witzmann. www.woka.com