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Table from the Kniže Store in Karlsbad, 1921

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Wood (Walnut), partly veneered, brass
71.5×71.5×71.5 cm

Artists

  • Adolf Loos

    (Brno 1870–1933 Kalksburg/Vienna)

Currently on display at OG3
The fashion-conscious architect Adolf Loos (1870–1933) had manifold ties to the tailor company Kniže. Loos designed the Kniže branches on Graben in Vienna, in Karlsbad (ex. *(Ceiling lamp *) present-day Karlovy Vary), on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin as well as on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Hugo Steiner – the managing director of the Paris branch opened in 1927 – commissioned Loos in 1910 to build the apartment building in Vienna’s Hietzing district that would become a milestone in modern architecture. In the tailor company’s sales rooms, it was especially the polygonal ceiling lamps made from brass and cut glass that provided brand recognition. In his interior design concepts created shortly after 1900, Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), whose work and person Adolf Loos met with ambivalence, favored comparable light fixtures.

Object data

Artist/author
Title
Table from the Kniže Store in Karlsbad
Date
1921
Category
Furniture
Material​/technique
Wood (Walnut), partly veneered, brass
Dimensions
71.5×71.5×71.5 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 6411
Inventory access
Accession 2019
Selection of Reference works
  • Wien 1900. Aufbruch in die Moderne, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, ab 15.03.2019).
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Galerie Hummel, Wien (o.D.)
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 2019); (1)

  1. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Rechnung Nr. 2019/07 vom 10.09.2019

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