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Premiere for Adolf Loos 1899-1906. Ferdinand Rainer opened the Café Museum in the immediate vicinity of the K & K Hofoper, the Künstlerhaus and the then "wild" Secession. The establishment of the new coffee house was designed by Adolf Loos, the open-minded builder, who, true to his artistic attitude, placed great emphasis on simplicity.
Adolf Loos (1870-1933), the architect and theoretician born in Brno, is one of the most significant personalities of European culture from the first half of the 20th century. His justifiably renowned invention is the spatial concept he termed the Raumplan – i.e. the composition of the internal spaces of a house in different proportions, all ingeniously connected by a staircase and enclosed ...
Contains thirty-six original essays by the celebrated Viennese architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Most deal with questions of design in a wide range of areas, from architecture and furniture, to clothes and jewellery, pottery, plumbing, and printing; others are polemics on craft education and training, and on design in general.
About Loos: Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (10 December 1870-23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czech architect and influential European theorist of modern architecture. His essay ornament and crime advocated smooth and clear surfaces in contrast to the lavish decorations of the fin de siècle and also to the more modern aesthetic ...
Biografía de Adolf Loos. Adolf Loos (1870-1933) nació en Brno, Moravia, un albañil de piedra que enseñó a su hijo la importancia de la utilidad del diseño y ayudó a Adolf a apreciar el tiempo y la energía que se tomó en el diseño. Loos asistió a la universidad en Austria y sirvió en el ejército austriaco en 1889.
Adolf Loos, 1870-1933, exh. cat., Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1983 p. 165, fig. 2.30.8 for a period image of the related table clock p. 191, fig. 2.71 for a period image of a similar example S. Wichmann, Jugendstil Art Nouveau, Floral and Functional Forms , Boston, 1984, p. 186-87 for period images of a similar example and the related table clock
Jan 1, 2008 · A long article on the evils of replicas, and the gauche habit of imitating higher culture by buying products which only appear to be quality. I think it was a great mercy that Adolf Loos died before Ikea and particle-board furniture became ubiquitous. "England was the first country to declare war on imitation." (p. 52)
