The MAK is a museum and space of experimentation for applied arts at the interface of design, architecture, and contemporary art. Its core competence lies in a contemporary exploration of these fields aimed at revealing new perspectives and elucidating discourse at the edges of the institution's traditions. The MAK focuses its efforts on securing an adequate recognition and positioning of applied arts. It pursues new approaches to its extensive collection, which encompasses various epochs, materials, and artistic disciplines, and develops these approaches to compelling views.

Adolf Bereuter is a photographer living and working in Dornbirn, Austria.

Carl Auböck (1900-1957) was an Austrian modernist designer and painter.

Andreas Buchberger is an Austrian architectural photographer currently living and working in Vienna.

Anna and Michael Trubig are the owners of Stillfried Wien, an Austrian design shop in New York City.

An Austrian furniture maker founded in 1959, and a pioneer of eco-furniture, and today, a market leader for eco-design furniture.

Ettore Sottsass was born in Austria in 1917, though in the late 1920s he moved to Italy with his family (his father was the prominent Italian architect Ettore Sottsass, Sr). He set up his first studio in Milan before traveling to New York in the 1950s, where he worked in the office of from 1956 to 1957. A future-minded designer, Sottsass worked closely with Olivetti designing the Elea 9003 (the first Italian calculator) in 1959 and the company's first electronic typewriter, the Tekne, a few years later. He passed away in 2007 at the age of 90, after resurged interest in his work led to exhibitions at the and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Richard Neutra (1892-1970) was one of the giants of 20th-century architecture. His importance to the modernist movement as a whole as well as to the rise of modernism in California cannot be overstated. Neutra was born in Austria where he studied under Adolf Loos and worked with Erich Mendelsohn. He came to the U.S. in 1923. He worked with Frank Lloyd Wright, then took up residence with his friend RM Schindler. They collaborated on several projects but eventually had a falling out over how to credit a certain work. Neutra was on the cover of Time magazine in 1949—a rarity for an architect. His most famous buildings include: the Lovell House and the VDL Residence, both in Los Angeles (the latter where he and his family lived), and the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, among others. In addition to training architects who would go on to prominence like Gregory Ain and Raphael Soriano, Neutra’s work helped spur the rise of photographer Julius Shulman. Shulman photographed many Neutra projects, each reinforcing the other’s reputation as the expert maker and chronicler of Californian modernism.

Zalto is an Austrian fine glass maker using traditional hand-blown techniques to make a wide range of premium glassware, particularly stemware. The firm has deep roots in norther Waldviertel, where the Zalto family had been making crystal for more than six generations. In 2006, the curent company was founded in New Neunagelberg. It specializes in their two brands - Zalto and Denk'Art - creating their high quality glassware. Their glassware is made without the addition of lead oxide and are resistant to clouding, and are made in timeless elegant shapes.

After more than 15 successful years in the furniture industry the Xpand System collection has been designed by a small group of designers and furniture makers in Austria and Germany.

“The provocation of the random and the unpredictable is our strategy in approaching the spatial and programmatic aspects of architecture. We work at discovering the factors leading beyond pure functionality – it is how we see the essence of architecture.” Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs (*1967) and Ernst J. Fuchs (* 1963) founded the next ENTERprise Architects in 2000 in Vienna, Austria. From the beginning tnE have operated in a field that ranges from experimental installations to architectural practice, treating both approaches as equal and mutually influential. Projects like the Zirl House / AT (1997), Stadtwind / AT (2000), Blindgänger / AT (2000), Underground Swimming Pool / AT (2001), Audiolounge / AT (2001), Trinkbrunnen / AT (2003), How to Start a City / AT (2003), Lakeside Bath Caldaro / IT (2006), Cloud Tower - Open-air pavilion Grafenegg/ AT (2007), Residential development Auer-Welsbach-Straße / AT (2007), Archaeological Center Mainz / GER, competition 1st prize (2010), Noeklius _ informed sculpture / AT (2014), Fidesser House / AT have been widely published and awarded. The studio was nominated several times for the Mies van der Rohe Award / Further Prizes: Austrian Baupreis, Clients’ Award of the Austrian Architects Association, City of Vienna Award for the Advancement of Architecture, the Lower Austria Award for Cultural Achievements in Architecture. Their projects and installations have been shown among others at Archilab Orléans / FR (2000, 2001, 2003), Latent Utopias, Steirischer Herbst / AT (2002), Bienal de São Paulo / Brazil (2003), Manifesta / IT (2009), Venice Biennale / IT (2004, 2006, 2010, 2016),’Fractional Systems’ at Mackey Garages, Los Angeles (2010), Walking Chair Gallery Vienna / AT (2011), Aedes Gallery Berlin / GER (2004, 2014). Their project UN/COMMON SPACE UN/DEFINED LIVING for "Places for People" was presented in the Austrian pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2016 in Venice / IT. Marie-Therese Harnoncourt and Ernst J. Fuchs are internationally invited for talks and lectures, and they have held teaching appointments among others at the University of Applied Arts Vienna / AT, Vienna University of Technology / AT, University of Innsbruck / AT, University of Art and Design Linz / AT, Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava / SK, École Spéciale d’Architecture Paris / FR. The first monograph of the next ENTERprise 'Close to the Bone' was published in 2007 (DD22, Damdi Architecture Publishing Co., South Korea). www.tne.space

Josef Frank was an Austrian architect and designer duing the 20th century. Throught his life Frank designed a diverse and vast collection of textiles, furniture, and structures. Frank represented a freer, more artistic style ideal, and he developed his own type of modernism with values such as comfort, hominess and a wealth of color in focus.

Lobmeyr was founded in Vienna, Austria in 1823 by Josef Lobmeyr, and quickly became a purveyor to the Hapsburg imperial family. The company embraced the Wiener Werkstätte under the stewardship of Stefan Rath senior in 1912. The company began making chandeliers after the war, eventually acquiring Zahn (founded 1780) in 1972. Lobmeyr's full range of glasswares embrace its history while continuing their focus on "the contemporary interpretation of light and glass."

Euroflues brings contemporary relevance to one of life’s simplest pleasures—relaxing in the warmth of a glowing wood fire. Euroflues follows European design trends across the continent, sourcing cutting edge contemporary fireplaces and stoves from industry leaders in France, Austria, and the Netherlands. Our distinctive hearth designs upstage and outperform their sober American counterparts, transforming ordinary spaces into the extraordinary. Beautiful. Practical. Sustainable. Euroflues: Celebrating the art of the flame.

I earned a design degree from UCLA and studied for a Master's in photojournalism and advertising/illustrative photography at Syracuse University. I shot for newspapers and magazines nation-wide before finding a home with editorial and illustrative event photography. Hailing from a culturally rich and artistic heritage, I was born to Austrian parents who immerced me in historical and art-filled travels from a very young age. Please contact our studio for information regarding your specific photographic needs 310.372.6464.

Peter Bennetts was born in 1967 in Sydney, Australia. He studied photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His initial pursuit of environmental reportage assignments has led Peter to photograph features all over the world including Argentina, Austria, Chile & Easter Island, China, France, French Polynesia, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, West Papua, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Spain, Solomon Islands, Thailand, U.A.E., U.K., U.S.A. and Vanuatu. He has particularly focussed his camera on the island nation of Tuvalu, whose coral atolls are especially vulnerable to a changing climate. Environmental reportage led to Peter’s burgeoning interest in the constructed environment and since 1997 Peter has been photographing the pre-eminent architecture and design of both his home country of Australia and in the international arena. His work in the field of architecture, interiors and graphic design has allowed Peter to indulge his passion for great design in all its forms. His work regularly features in the Australian publications Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Inside, AR and Monument and he is a frequent contributor to Wallpaper, Frame, Mark, Dwell, Domus, Casabella and other international publications. His photography has appeared in numerous books including four monographs and the two volumes of the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. His architectural images have been described as having “a remarkable crystalline stillness” and he is known for his “straight-shooting” style of architectural photography, focussing on the formal, material and atmospheric qualities of a project. He maintains a keen interest in environmental concerns and keeps the Leica at hand. Peter lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife; architect Rowena Hockin, and their two young sons.

The idea for creating the company Fluid Forms was founded by the Austrian designer Hannes Walter while working on his diploma thesis.It didn't take long to convince the creative-coder and mathematician, Stephen Williams from New Zealand of his idea.The two of them were fellow students when they studied design in Cologne. In the year 2005 they started with the development of their first design-tools and products in the Science Park Graz (Austria). They already realized that the design-your-own-movement on the Internet, creative-coding as well as digital production methods such as 3D print would dramatically change the way products are created, produced and made available to the user. By the end of 2005 Fluid Forms launched its first website and presented its first prototype. It was a vase that was the first item to be designed individually. They started to present the company on fairs in European cities such as in Milan, Frankfurt and Zürich. In the course of time the two designers developed new product-design tools which enabled the creation of more functional and more emotional products. In January 2008 the office and studio were moved to the creativity quarter of Graz, Lend. Out of what was initially a simple idea emerged a powerful software system which empowers the creation of new and innovative products. This software system makes a constant launch of new product-design-tools on Fluid Forms possible. Since August 2008 Andreas Jaritz contributes to the development of Fluid Forms in the role of the communications druid. Andreas is responsible for providing customers, press and people interested in Fluid Forms with information concerning new product-design-tools, user co-creation, digital fabrication and gift ideas.