ADOLF LOOS
| About the artist | Brno 1870 – 1933 Kalksburg near Vienna |
| Designed by | Adolf Loos, Vienna, variant of the Stössler/Manz chair from 1912 |
| Executed by | Friedrich Otto Schmidt |
| Dimensions | H 75 cm, SH 45.5 cm, B 57 cm, T 52 cm |
| Material | Solid mahogany and veneer, brass cuffs, surface professionally repolished, renewed leather upholstery |
| Provenance | private collection, Austria |
| Literature | Das Interieur, 1900, vol. 1, p. 95; E. B. Ottillinger, A. Loos, Wohnkonzepte und Möbelentwürfe, Wien, 1994, p. 132, illus. pp. 40, 134; Kunkal, F. O. Schmidt company archives, Nr. 6865; T. Hoffmann (ed.), Von Arts and Crafts zum Bauhaus, exhibition catalogue, Bröhan- Museum Berlin, 2018, p.119 |
These chairs are both a variant of the "Stössler chair" from 1899 and most probably a predecessor type of the Manz chair. The type of these chairs goes back to English models. Loos repeatedly used variations of these designs for other interiors.
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