What’s Happening (with Loos)? 
ln the course of her exhibition ‘Was ist Loos'?" 
at the Kunsthalle Wien in 2017, the artist Ineke 
Hans designed a new piece of bentwood fur- 
niture, which was executed by Gebrüder 
Thonet Vienna. The “Kunsthalle Wien Chair," 
which was specially designed to meet the 
needs of the institution, is a stackable row chair 
for use at Conferences, lectures, and discus- 
sion events which plays on the tradition of the 
turn-of-the-century Viennese bentwood archi- 
tectural furniture from the likes of Adolf Loos, 
Otto Wagner, and Josef Hoffmann. However, 
if you really wanted to name specific role mod- 
els for this chair, then it would probably be best 
to make reference to the bentwood furniture 
of the interwar period-especially to the chairs 
of the German architect and designer Adolf 
Gustav Schneck, who also oriented his de- 
signs on the rampant tubulär Steel fashion of 
the 1920s. Moreover, for the seat, the artist 
drew on the classic star-shaped perforated 
plywood panels from the repertoire of furniture 
manufacturers from the 19th Century, which 
was abandoned in the modern era and is found 
neither in the turn-of-the-century architectural 
furniture nor in the chairs of the interwar period. 
Fauteuil Armchair A 64 F 
Entwurf Design: Adolf Gustav Schneck, Stuttgart, um ca. 1928 
Ausführung Execution: Thonet Mundus, 1930er Jahre 1930s; Buche, massiv und gebogen, 
Sperrholz Beech, solid and bent, plywood; MAK H 2618/1981; Schenkung Donation 
Friederike Niedermoser 
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