Jacques and Jacqueline Groag, Architect and Designer

By Ursula ProkopTranslated by Jonee Tiedemann and Laura McGuireEdited by Laura McGuireMay 2019. Hardcover.272 pages, full color edition. Catalog of works, bibliography and an index.9780999754436 | $39.95 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 Čižek, 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