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Forgotten names

From the book Mid-Century Modern – Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna

  • Caroline Wohlgemuth
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035624205-041
© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
From the book
Mid-Century Modern – Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna
Mid-Century Modern – Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna

Chapters in this book (58)

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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