Otto Wagner Chair

Unlike any other austrian architect furniture designer and interior decorator otto wagner holds the key to viennese modernist and art nouveau architecture.

Otto wagner chair.

The postsparkasse series was designed in 1906 by otto wagner for the headquarters of the post office savings bank in vienna and represents a clear expression of modern viennese art. The solid bent beech wood structure is both embracing and ergonomic. 6 elegant dinning chairs style of otto wagner ton thonet. 2 original thonet bentwood backrest chair mid century modern mcm.

Das interieur iv 1903 p 7. Explore all seating created by otto wagner. In 1894 wagner was appointed professor of architecture at the vienna academy of fine arts. Essentially wagner catapulted fin de siècle vienna into the 20th century by celebrating the beauty of simplicity.

Furniture for the vienna post office savings bank otto wagner vienna c. With his post office savings bank on stubenring otto wagner created a pioneering icon of 20th century architecture the interior of which was designed on purely functional lines. Ton czechoslovakia bentwood dining chair beech wood thonet ton. Otto koloman wagner german.

Otto koloman wagner was born on july 13 1841 in vienna austria. Many of his works are found in his native city of vienna and illustrate the rapid evolution of architecture during the period. He made also use of the ultra modern material of aluminium. 13 july 1841 11 april 1918 was an austrian architect and urban planner he was a leading member of the vienna secession movement of architecture founded in 1897 and the broader art nouveau movement.

Bent beech wood origine. 78 x 56 x 58 cm. This is not what one immediately associates with functionalist design yet within otto wagner s austrian postal savings bank it is the very materiality of the finely crafted stone concrete glass wood and metal that makes the building decidedly. Choose from 8 authentic otto wagner armchairs for sale on 1stdibs.