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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4343464, member: 2844&quot;]If the armoire is Austrian, which is not yet an absolute certainty, it could still be called Jugendstil.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Austrians themselves call the style Jugendstil, and regard Secessionism and Wiener Werkstätte as Austrian subtypes of the broader Jugendstil movement.</p><p>I remember going on a guided &#039;Jugendstilspaziergang&#039; (Jugendstil walk) through Vienna in the 1980s, and the term was used widely.</p><p>The terms Jugendstil and Secessionism are also used in the neighbouring Bohemian part of Czechia, btw.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below a quote from an Austrian site, it also explains why a possibly Austrian armoire could have earlier historic style hardware:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Jugendstil, Kunstrichtung an der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert, in Österreich eng mit den Begriffen Wiener <a href="http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.s/s477719.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.s/s477719.htm" rel="nofollow">Secession</a> und <a href="http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.w/w646802.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.w/w646802.htm" rel="nofollow">Wiener Werkstätte</a> verbunden. Spätphase des Historismus und Übergang zur Moderne.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.j/j817307.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.j/j817307.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.j/j817307.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Translation:</p><p>&quot;Jugendstil, art style of the turn of the 20th century,&nbsp; in Austria closely associated with the terms Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstätte. Late phase of Historic Revival and transition to Modernism.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>From a Vienna information site:</p><p><a href="https://www.wien.info/de/sightseeing/sehenswuerdigkeiten/jugendstil" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wien.info/de/sightseeing/sehenswuerdigkeiten/jugendstil" rel="nofollow">https://www.wien.info/de/sightseeing/sehenswuerdigkeiten/jugendstil</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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