Mid-Century Modern – Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna /

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

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 we...

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

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