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Title
Collection
Production
- design: Adolf Loos, Vienna, 1902
- execution: Anonym, Vienna, 1902
Subject
Material | Technique
Measurements
- height: 43 cm
- width: 229 cm
- width: 187 cm
- depth: 80 cm
Inventory number
- H 2616
Acquisition
- donation, 1981
Department
- Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Description
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In a certain sense, architect Adolf Loos can be viewed as Viennese Modernism’s great lone warrior. He authored culturally critical articles in which he rejected his contemporaries’ supposed aberrations of taste. In contrast to the thinking of colleagues such as the Secessionists and the members of the Wiener Werkstätte, above all Josef Hoffmann, whom his sharp criticism frequently targeted, Loos’s idea of renewal was more one of content than of form or style. To him, Modernism meant not the invention of a new style, but rather the functional and aesthetic adaptation of proven solutions. It was thus that he designed this mahogany corner seating ensemble for the study at the apartment of Gustav and Marie Turnowsky in 1902 based on time-honored English examples, with some pieces being made according to originals owned by the museum and some according to Loos’s own instructions. The famous "Elephant Trunk Table", which Loos employed in various contexts, was produced at the workshops of F. O. Schmidt.
(Hackenschmidt, Sebastian)
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room / interior, Herrenzimmer der Wohnung von Mary und Gustav Turnowsky, Adolf Loos, MAK Inv.nr. H 2616
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https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/herrenzimmer-der-wohnung-von-mary-und-gustav-turnowsky_379150
Last update
- 11.10.2024
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