Chair
by LOOS, Adolf, Curved beech, stained and varnished, 87 x 43 x 51 cm,
It took almost fifty years for the steam-bent wood furniture, invented by Michael Thonet and widely distributed, to acquire its letters of nobility. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was the great Viennese architects who gave new functionality to these long-proven pieces of furniture. The curved wood furniture is indeed ideally suited to the program of utilitarian art that they defend.
Adolf Loos opted for this practical and economical furniture when he designed the Caf� Museum in Vienna, whose interior layout was an exemplar in simplicity. In terms of seating, Loos refined the popular bistro chair developed by Thonet in 1849.
The Caf� Museum still exists today, and this model of chair is still used there.