Up to four elegantly curved Art Nouveau coat and hat hooks, sold and priced per piece. Designed in 1913 by Adolf Loos (1870–1933) for the Jugendstil Café Capua in Vienna, which opened that same year right next to Josef Hoffmann's Cabaret Fledermaus. These hooks are over 100 years old and still do their job perfectly. Nickel-plated brass, in good condition with nice patina. Height 5", width 1.25", depth 4.5".
Adolf Loos was an Austrian architect and designer and one of the pioneers of modern architecture. Known for his purist design language and rejection of unnecessary ornamentation, he designed Café Capua as well as Café Museum, the American Bar (Loos Bar), the Looshaus on Michaelerplatz in Vienna, Villa Müller in Prague, and the Steiner House and Scheu House in Vienna. His furniture, interiors and buildings are key works of Viennese Modernism. Together with Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser and Joseph Maria Olbrich, he belongs to the big names of Austrian design history.