Otto Wagner Chair

6 elegant dinning chairs style of otto wagner ton thonet.

Otto wagner chair.

Furniture for the vienna post office savings bank otto wagner vienna c. Unlike any other austrian architect furniture designer and interior decorator otto wagner holds the key to viennese modernist and art nouveau architecture. 2 original thonet bentwood backrest chair mid century modern mcm. Among his students were the renowned art nouveau architects joseph maria olbrich and josef hoffmann.

Ton czechoslovakia bentwood dining chair beech wood thonet ton. 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. Polished marble ebonized beech wood nickel plated and aluminum detailing and everywhere broad panels of curved and beveled glass.

Otto koloman wagner german. In 1894 wagner was appointed professor of architecture at the vienna academy of fine arts. Otto koloman wagner was born on july 13 1841 in vienna austria. The solid bent beech wood structure is both embracing and ergonomic.

Bent beech wood origine. 78 x 56 x 58 cm. He made also use of the ultra modern material of aluminium. 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.

Extremely rare and very modern furniture from 1900 designed by otto wagner a pair of stools which can be bought separately as well. Explore all seating created by otto wagner. Many of his works are found in his native city of vienna and illustrate the rapid evolution of architecture during the period. Essentially wagner catapulted fin de siècle vienna into the 20th century by celebrating the beauty of simplicity.