Adolf Loos

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Melcombe
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Wed Feb 18, 2015 6:24 pm

Interesting fellow : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Loos - and snappy dresser. (Love the collar on phot no 2)


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Im struggling a bit with his "Why a man should be well dressed" - some very modern ideas coming out of a very claustrophobic social context in pre WW1 Austria-Hungary.
Frederic Leighton
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Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:44 pm

Melcombe wrote:Im struggling a bit with his "Why a man should be well dressed" - some very modern ideas coming out of a very claustrophobic social context in pre WW1 Austria-Hungary.
Also HERE. I read the book last year - very nice edition and beautiful object. Honestly, I found its content a bit boring. I guess I had too high expectations from having studied the impact of the author's ideas on contemporary architecture.
Luca
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Thu Feb 19, 2015 5:40 pm

Nice duds... as to "ornament is crime", I think that Vienna in that period marked the beginning of the end of Western Civ.

I say: "ornament is fine"!
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Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:42 am

Luca wrote:I think that Vienna in that period marked the beginning of the end of Western Civ.
I was saying pretty much the same thing to my wife only yesterday.
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