Café Museum chair
Adolf Loos’s bentwood chair for the Café Museum in Vienna, a quiet comment on Thonet’s classic.
Loos fitted out the Café Museum in 1898 without ornament, and critics called it ‘Café Nihilismus’. The chair became his best-known piece of furniture and was made for a long time. Examples are in the MAK and the Wien Museum.
Materials: Steam-bent beech, stained red, cane seat
Manufacture: Made in series by the bentwood firm J. & J. Kohn after Loos’s design.
The back bow and legs have an oval section – the chair is thinner and lighter than No. 14.
An extra brace between leg and seat that stiffens the chair.