Arts Dithyrambic Loos
This passage is from the introduction of Edward Fords’ The Details of Modern Architecture: Volume Two:
Richard Neutra [a friend of the early-20th century Viennese modernist architect Adolf Noos, who if famous for his manifesto “Ornament and Crime”] recalled: “….Smiling, Loos would say that the most beautiful piece of cabinetwork was the American oak toilet seat. It was wonderful! Today plastic is used, but in those days there were well-curved and shaped oak seats. Loos became dithyrambic aboout this graceful but matter-of-fact article, how it was fitted on the china fixture, how neatly it was joined, and how well it would withstand all abuse. He always gave this as an example of American cabinetwork….”
Loos is also famous for designing this ornamentless house, Villa Muller:
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