Wilhelm Foltin

Wilhelm Foltin was an architect and designer from Innsbruck associated with the Wiener Werkstätte in the 1920s. He designed complex intarsia furniture as well as textiles for the firm. A proponent of empathy-theory (Einfühlungstheorie) in the context of interiors, Foltin, among many other avant-garde architects and designers of the period, believed that specific materials could evoke different emotional effects on the viewer depending on scale, color, texture, and lighting. Literature: Willy Foltin, “Einrichtung – Einfühlung: Einige Randbemerkungen,” Innendekoration: mein Heim, mein Stolz; die gesamte Wohungskunst in Bild und Wort 35 (1924): 393.