Art is in the Air with Austrian Airlines

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Austrian Airlines new Business Class amenity kits – Limited Edition with the MAK – Museum for Applied Arts in Vienna.

 

This October, Austrian Airlines will unveil its new Business Class amenity kits – a creative and sophisticated art collaboration with the MAK – Museum for Applied Arts in Vienna. To establish a partnership between the airline and the museum, skysupply, one of the world’s leading suppliers of in-flight equipment, approached the MAK – Museum for Applied Arts and developed industrial production templates for three textile designs created by artists who shaped the Wiener Werkstätte production collective.

Austrian Airlines new Business Class amenity kits – an art collaboration with the MAK – Museum for Applied Arts in Vienna.

Austrian Airlines new Business Class amenity kits – an art collaboration with the MAK – Museum for Applied Arts in Vienna.

The first pattern by Dagobert Peche now appears on the airline’s inbound and outbound kits in two colour variants. The new Business Class amenity kit concept will launch in October with two pouches made of recycled polyester jacquard, both featuring the Dagobert Peche design. The two versions differ in colour: one has a dark red and white pattern, while the other combines light and dark orange tones. The limited edition begins with Dagobert Peche, whose works were highlighted in the solo exhibition “Peche Pop: Dagobert Peche und seine Spuren in der Gegenwart” at the MAK – Museum for Applied Arts earlier in 2025. Following Peche, designs by Mathilde Flögl and Koloman Moser will be introduced.

Austrian Airlines new Business Class amenity kits – Limited Edition with the MAK – Museum for Applied Arts in Vienna.
Austrian Airlines new Business Class amenity kits – Limited Edition with the MAK – Museum for Applied Arts in Vienna.

 

The rectangular zippered pouch features a front tag with the designer’s name, the year the design was created, and a note about the collaboration: “Limited Edition with MAK – Museum of Applied Arts”. A banderole additionally states: “Limited Edition Austrian Airlines with MAK – Museum of Applied Arts”. The kit’s contents include a paper-wrapped bamboo toothbrush, two paper-wrapped toothbrush tablets, paper-wrapped earplugs, socks, and a sleep mask. The sleep mask displays the same pattern as the pouch, while the socks match one of the pouch’s colours.

The amenity kit underscores Austrian Airlines’ ongoing dedication to sustainability: recycled, durable materials help minimise waste and extend the product’s lifespan. The distinctive artistic design and practical reusability encourage passengers to retain the pouches as collectors’ items, prolonging their use well beyond the journey.

Austrian Airlines new Business Class amenity kits – Limited Edition with the MAK – Museum for Applied Arts in Vienna.

 

For the first time, industrial production templates have been created for textiles designed by Dagobert Peche (1887-1927), Mathilde Flögl (1893-1958), and Koloman Moser (1868-1918). All three were members of the Wiener Werkstätte, a Vienna-based collective active between 1903 and 1932, specialising in applied arts such as textiles, jewellery, and furniture. The MAK houses the world’s largest collection of Wiener Werkstätte objects. On behalf of Austrian Airlines, skysupply collaborated with the museum team to establish this two-year partnership, with each artist’s design featured for an eight-month period.