Mid-Century Modern – Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna / / Caroline Wohlgemuth.

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• VerfasserIn: Wohlgemuth, Caroline,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Angewandte ,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

Visionary furniture design from Vienna In 1938, Vienna lost its best and most creative minds. This rupture was manifested in all of the arts and sciences and its mark is felt to this day – not least in the field of furniture design. With inexhaustible creativity the Jewish furniture designers who were forced to flee Vienna continued to work while in exile. They taught at the best universities and spread their ideas and vision throughout the entire world. Their creations became classics of twentieth-century furniture design, the epitome of mid-century modern style. This book honors the memory of the exiled designers with a thorough overview of their work. It details their life stories and their visionary designs, which remain as relevant and contemporary as ever, and brings to light new aspects of the history of Viennese furniture design. A new history of Viennese furniture design, with 27 detailed biographies Numerous previously unpublished photographs and sketches Including works by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Martin Eisler, Josef Frank, Friedrich Kiesler, Richard Neutra, Bruno Pollak, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Franz Singer, Ernst Schwadron, among others

Visionäres Möbeldesign aus Wien Wien verlor im Jahr 1938 seine kreativsten und besten Köpfe: Ein Riss in der Zeit, der sich quer durch alle Wissenschaften und Künste manifestierte und bis heute spürbar bleibt – auch im Möbeldesign. Mit ihrer unerschöpflichen Kreativität wirkten die vertriebenen jüdischen Möbeldesignerinnen und -designer aus Wien im Exil weiter. Sie unterrichteten an den besten Universitäten und verbreiteten ihre Ideen und Visionen auf der gesamten Welt. Ihre Möbel wurden zu Designklassikern des 20. Jahrhunderts, zum Inbegriff des Mid-Century Modern Style. Dieser Überblick ruft das Möbeldesign der vertriebenen Designerinnen und Designer in Erinnerung: Er vergegenwärtigt ihre Lebensgeschichten und ihre visionären Entwürfe, die heute aktueller sind denn je, und fördert neue Aspekte der Geschichte des Möbeldesigns aus Wien zutage. Eine neue Geschichte des Wiener Möbeldesigns, mit umfangreichen Biografien Zahlreiche unveröffentlichte Fotografien und Skizzen Mit Werken von Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Martin Eisler, Josef Frank, Friedrich Kiesler, Richard Neutra, Bruno Pollak, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Franz Singer, Ernst Schwadron u. a.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. A History of Viennese Furniture Design from Its Beginnings to 1960 -- 1 Furniture design—a look back: from draftsman to designer -- 2 Biedermeier—furniture artistry from Vienna -- 3 Bentwood furniture: Gebrüder Thonet and Jacob & Josef Kohn -- 4 Vienna 1900 -- 5 From Bauhaus to International Style -- 6 Visionary Vienna—letting loose of Loos -- 7 Glamorous Art Deco and Viennese furniture in Paris -- 8 A fissure in time—1938 and the consequences for Viennese furniture design -- 9 The banished visionaries—from Vienna to the US -- 10 Furniture design of 1950s Vienna -- 11 Scandinavian furniture and Viennese furniture design in Sweden: Josef Frank -- 12 Bel Design from Italy -- 13 Industrially produced furniture in English exile -- 14 From Vienna to Palestine—furniture design for the newly created State of Israel -- 15 The intellectual message from Vienna -- II. Furniture Designers— Biographies -- Oskar Strnad -- Ella Briggs -- Oskar Wlach -- Ernst Lichtblau -- Josef Frank -- Paul Theodore Frankl -- Walter Sobotka -- Frederick Kiesler -- Paul Engelmann -- Richard Neutra -- Ernst Freud -- Liane Zimbler -- Jacques Groag -- Felice Rix-Ueno -- Felix Augenfeld -- Ernst Schwadron -- Franz Singer -- Friedl Dicker -- Bruno Pollak -- Jacqueline Groag -- Walter Loos -- Anna Szabo -- Dora Gad -- Martin Eisler -- Forgotten names -- III. Interviews with Experts, Collectors, and Designers -- Friedl Dicker & Franz Singer—Georg Schrom on the visionary joint studio -- Five generations of design from Vienna—Maria Auböck on the Carl Auböck workshop -- IV. Glimpses into Apartments, Houses, and Cafés -- A house and garden for the soul—the Krasny house today -- The house of a hundred steps—Villa Beer -- Designer living room in a museum: Salonplafond -- A journey in time back to the 1950s: Café Prückel -- When time stands still: original furniture design from the 1950s -- The Guesthouse Vienna—a brasserie with Viennese furniture design -- A bohemian life above the rooftops of Vienna -- Mid-Century Modern furniture design in an elegant palace -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Publishing Information