Kärntner Bar
Loos, Adolf
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Alternative Title
American Bar
Date
1908Description
Close view of the American flag canopy, depicting glass mosaic, detail; In 1908 he designed the famous interior of the American Bar (Kärntner Bar), Durchgang Kärntner, Vienna, which, with its coloured glass, marble floor and panelled ceiling, continued the '...confluence of...ideas...some drawn from Neo-classicism, some from the influence of Ruskin and Morris, which constitutes the essence of Loos's philosophy' (Summerson; see 1985 exh. cat., p. 7). Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/7/2008)
Type of Work
bar (commercial building)Subject
decorative arts, commercial, leisure, Arts and Crafts (movement), Modernist
Rights
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