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Adolf Loos A Private Portrait

By Claire Beck Loos, Constance C. Pontasch (Translator), Carrie Paterson (Editor), Janet Beck Wilson (Contribution by)
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By Claire Beck Loos, Constance C. Pontasch (Translator), Carrie Paterson (Editor), Janet Beck Wilson (Contribution by)
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Adolf Loos—A Private Portrait is an unusual, literary biography featuring lively, often humorous, “snapshots” of Viennese-Czechoslovak architect Adolf Loos.

"A valuable fine-grained portrait… The English translation of her book is fluent and accurate, conveying well the tone of Claire Loos’ original (which, in turn, to some extent mimics Loos’ own writing style). Richly informative."
—Christopher Long, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture

"Claire Be...

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