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Adolf Loos

Four Important Armchairs

Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Date 1899

Period 1850-1900

Origin Vienna

Medium Walnut, Walnut veneer on pine, White metal cuffs

Dimension 75.5 x 51 x 46 cm (29³/₄ x 20¹/₈ x 18¹/₈ inches)

ADOLF LOOS
FRIEDRICH OTTO SCHMIDT

FOUR IMPORTANT ARMCHAIRS

designed by: Adolf Loos, for the apartment of Eugen Stössler, 1899
executed by: F. O. Schmidt, model no. 6865

Upholstery renewed and reupholstered with red leather, surface professionally repolished, 3 struts between the legs renewed, 2 chairs with higher saddle, 2 chairs with lower saddle.

Our four chairs are among the most accomplished designs of Adolf Loos. Influenced by English models, he designed them in 1899 for the dining-room of the Stössler apartment. Later he used variations of the same design in a number of his interiors. Since these early chairs were executed without the front arm supports of later versions, they are particularly elegant and airy.

Date: 1899

Period: 1850-1900

Origin: Vienna

Medium: Walnut, Walnut veneer on pine, White metal cuffs

Dimension: 75.5 x 51 x 46 cm (29³/₄ x 20¹/₈ x 18¹/₈ inches)

Literature: E. B. Ottillinger, A. Loos, 1994, p. 132, ill. pp. 40, 134; Kunkal, F. O. Schmidt company archives, Nr. 6865

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Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Viennese Jugendstil, Secessionist Movement

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