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The Private Adolf Loos: Portrait of an Eccentric Genius

By Claire Beck Loos, Constance C. Pontasch (Translator), Nicholas Saunders (Translator)
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By Claire Beck Loos, Constance C. Pontasch (Translator), Nicholas Saunders (Translator)
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Lively, snapshot-like vignettes form an intimate, literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect Adolf Loos.

Written by Loos’ third wife, the photographer Claire Beck (1904–1942), these often humorous, short episodes reveal Loos’ temperament and philosophy during the last years of his life (1928–1933). His irreverent personality and attitudes about post-Imperial Viennese society, the role of the craftsman, and the organic beauty of raw materials are brought to...

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