Famed Viennese-British potter, Lucie Rie, lived and worked in this apartment on Andreasgasse and is the location where the majority of her work was made before she escaped Vienna in 1938. She had the apartment built by at the time the unknown architect Ernst A. Plischkes. This was his first commission and it included a gas-fired kiln for Rie’s work.

Rie studied ceramics at the Kunstgewerbschule (the school of arts and crafts) in the early to mid- ‘20s and studied under Michael Powolny, the co-founder of Wiener Keramik. Quickly rising in the ranks, Rie’s work was sent to international salons and competitions and regularly won awards.

With the rise of Nazism in Austria, Rie left Vienna for London where she set up shop and continued to sculpt her very modern, elegant and utilitarian pottery. She worked in London until her death in 1995.

Rie holds a dear place in the hearts of the Viennese and her Vienna apartment is celebrated both for its architecture as well as for the woman who occupied it.