Wiener GTV Design Thonet - Loos Cafè Museum chair Woven cane seat

A refined and timeless object. Elegance, formal lightness and everyday life. The famous chair by Adolf Loos is alive today thanks to new production techniques while maintaining unchanged the quality of craftsmanship that gave it birth. The Loos Café Museum was designed in 1898 to furnish the famous Café Museum in Vienna. Innovative in structure, thanks to the use of elliptical rather than round sections to give the chair great lightness without affecting its stability, the Loos Café Museum has a seat frame curved in one piece with or without saddle modulation. The back is partially oval.

Adolf Loos

Adolf Loos is considered one of the founders of European Rationalism and, in general, of modern architectural taste. Architect and representative of a renewal of architecture that included the renunciation of all unnecessary formalism. In sharp contrast with the Viennese eclecticism and especially of the Secession, its architecture was devoid of any ornamental superstructure, and the form had to respond as directly as possible to the expectations and needs of the human being.

Wiener GTV Design Thonet

Michael Thonet (1796-1871) and his five children were the most successful manufacturers of furniture in the Industrial Age. Gebrüder Thonet Vienna GmbH (GTV) has develop edits work in a successful blend of the traditional and the modern, of continuity and renewal, with a new production program that begins by re-editing a series of Gebrüder Thonet classics. At the same time, GTV stands for contemporary furnishing. Advanced production techniques are applied to innovative designs and uses of materials, to create highly sought-after, multipurpose furnishing items. Truly original, up-to-date solutions that integrate well with the more classic products of its catalogue, now reworked.Items such as chair No. 14, of which more than 50 million were made between 1850 and 1930, have gone down in history for their fine design and manufacturing quality, and yet still today excite and attract new generations. GTV always succeeds in finding the perfect combination of tradition and innovation, assisted by continuous research into new, clear-cut, versatile designs.The tangible and intangible intrinsic value of the GTV collection is expressed in the Wiener GTV Design brand, engraved on a coin embedded in the structure of each single piece: a precious detail that certifies authenticity, originality and quality in stable balance between manufacturing and high-level craftsmanship. Inspiring this unique detail was the coin with the image of the brand that was historically spent internally within Thonet production facilities throughout Europe.