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Loos, Adolf
Glasservice
1930
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| Object description | Cut glass |
|---|---|
| Object category | sculpture |
| Material |
object:
glass
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| Technique |
object:
sanding (abrasion)
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| Dimensions |
pot size:
height: 6,6 cm,
width: 9 cm,
height: 5,6 cm,
width: 7,8 cm
size flacon:
height: 7,7 cm,
width: 5,2 cm
size plug:
height: 5,9 cm,
width: 1,8 cm,
height: 5,6 cm,
width: 6,2 cm
size plate:
height: 1,7 cm,
width: 17,2 cm
size bowl:
height: 1,7 cm,
width: 12,4 cm
size bottle:
height: 23 cm,
width: 8,5 cm
size glass:
height: 9 cm,
width: 7,5 cm,
height: 13 cm,
width: 7,1 cm,
height: 8,3 cm,
width: 6,7 cm,
height: 11,3 cm,
width: 5,5 cm,
height: 5,4 cm,
width: 3,9 cm,
height: 6,4 cm,
width: 4,8 cm,
height: 6,6 cm,
width: 5,3 cm,
height: 7,7 cm,
width: 6,2 cm,
height: 5,4 cm,
width: 7,1 cm
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| Inventory number | M 15/0 |
| Creditline | mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Geschenk der Firma Lobmeyr, Wien |
| Rights reference | Gemeinfrei | public domain |
| Further information about the person | Loos, Adolf [GND] |
Adolf Loos had a clear and uncompromising view of form that made him a pioneer of modernist architecture. In 1931 he designed a series of glasses for the traditional Vienna department store Lobmeyr. This is seen as an outstanding example of applied art and as highly influential on modernist design. All of the parts of this elaborate series produced by Lobmeyr are based on one single reduced basic form—a cylindrical beaker, which is varied in height and radius in accordance with its purpose. The base of all of these glasses has a fine, matt silk polished diamond cut. Loos’s “Drinking Set 248” is still in production today and is one of the classics of Lobmeyr glass art. Throughout its two-hundred year history, this traditional company has always relied on a combination of art and design. In his last letter to Lobmeyr, the purist Loos described his idea of opening up strict design for elements of chance and decorative details based on individual tastes, by engraving “butterflies, flies, naked human figures” on the glass base. On the occasion of the glass set’s eightieth anniversary, Lobmeyr took up this suggestion. Graphic artist Stefan Sagmeister developed the idea, and instead of using butterflies and flies, he added depictions of the seven deadly sins and the seven virtues to the classic tableware. Design and desire are close together and the buyers decide what they prefer.
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