Armchair, c. 1900

This armchair was designed by the architect and designer Adolf Loos (1870–1933) around 1900. It represents a design variant of a chair created by the designer in 1899 for the apartment of Eugen Stössler. This first design only had two supports for the armrests. Loos, who time and again oriented his designs on British examples, adapted an English model designed by the London company Collinson & Lock for Stössler. This economical approach would subsequently characterize the designer’s method of working, who revisited existing designs and adapted them to suit individual requirements. The brass caps on the chair’s feet fulfilled Loos’s demand for a unity of form and function, as they serve both as floor protection and as decoration. The object was executed by the company Friedrich Otto Schmidt, with whom Loos often worked together.

MR, 2023