Adolf Loos - Hanging lamp

Date	1900
Period	Early 20th century
Dimensions	145 x 40 x 40 cm (57¹/₈ x 15³/₄ x 15³/₄ inches)
Gallery	Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Description
Technical

Designed by: Adolf Loos, around 1900

Executed by: Johannes Heeg for Friedrich Otto Schmidt; coloured design sketch: sheet 170, no. 22

Dodecahedron of 12 brass pentagons, polished, original faceted and cut glass, some small chips on glass, newly rewired, very good condition.

H approx. 145 cm, Ø approx. 40 cm

Loos liked to use this model in different sizes for interior decoration projects, including for the interior design of the Vienna and Paris branches of the gentlemen's outfitter Kniže and in a number of other interiors he furnished.

Friedrich Otto Schmidt mostly commissioned the Viennese master craftsman
and metalworker Johannes Heeg with executing the clocks and ceiling lamps designed by Loos.

Sincere thanks to Mr Klaus Lorenz und Mr Johann Oberreiter from the Friedrich Otto Schmidt company in Vienna for their kind advice and for and for providing us with the documentation.

Date: 1900
Period: Early 20th century
Dimensions: 145 x 40 x 40 cm (57¹/₈ x 15³/₄ x 15³/₄ inches)
Provenance:

private collection, Vienna

Literature:

Friedrich Otto Schmidt company archives, photo no. 2766, coloured design
sketch: sheet 170, no. 23; E. B. Ottillinger, Adolf Loos, Wohnkonzepte und
Möbelentwürfe, Vienna, 1994, illus. p. 68, 139, 160; M. Kristan, Loos, Läden
& Lokale, Vienna, 2001, p. 75; M. Kristan, Adolf Loos, Wohnungen, Vienna,
2001, p. 55