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Collection
Production
- design: Oskar Strnad, Vienna, about 1912
- execution: Anonym, Austria, about 1912
Period | Style | School
Material | Technique
- Buchenholz
- , massiv
- , schwarz gebeizt; Strohgeflecht
Measurements
- height: 105 cm
- width: 63.5 cm
- depth: 47 cm
- seat height: 48 cm
Inventory number
- H 2622
Acquisition
- purchase, 1981
Department
- Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Description
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Oskar Strnad was one of Austria’s most versatile and intriguing artistic personalities of the 20th century’s first half. In 1906, following his
graduation from Vienna’s Technische Hochschule [College of Technology], he began working in the city as an architect, designer, artist and scenic designer; over the course of his career, he was to pursue activities in the most varied fields of fine and applied art. His designs for residential buildings, interiors, furniture and items of daily use always put aspects of utility and comfort before formalist or functionalist dogmas. Strnad’s armchair, made of painted beech with a seating surface of woven straw, bears witness to a pragmatic
attitude that led him to update the rural English ladder-back type as a modern piece of Viennese furniture in a way that was elegant and also paid respect to local traditions.
(Hackenschmidt, Sebastian)
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- 27.09.2024
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