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INVENTORY OF JOSEF STEINDL FURNITURE DESIGN, circa
1888-1928
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Title: Josef Steindl furniture design
Date (inclusive): 1888-1928
Collection number: 930025
Creator:
Steindl, Josef
Extent:
4 linear feet
(7 boxes, 6 flat file
folders)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA
90049-1688
Abstract: Architect and professor at the Royal Technical School for Woodworking in Wal. Mesertitsch, and a noted designer of modern,
functional furniture in the 20th century. Steindl designed primarily bentwood and metal tubular furniture. He was, however,
also a master of historical furniture styles as seen in his work of the 1880s and 1890s and in the ornamentation for his bentwood
pieces. Collection comprises 315 original drawings and 571 photographic prints of furniture designs by Steindl, many in historical
styles of the 1890s.
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Language: Collection material in German
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Josef Steindl furniture design, ca. 1888-1928, Getty Research
Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 930025.
The collection was acquired May 25, 1993.
Rose Lachman processed the collection and wrote the finding aid.
Biographical / Historical Note
Josef Steindl, architect and professor at the Royal Technical School
for Woodworking in Wal. Mesertitsch, was a noted designer of modern, functional
furniture in the 20th century. His designs were intended for manufacture by the
leading furniture factories in Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, the Thonet
Bentwood Furniture factory and Jacob and Josef Kohn factory. The two firms
merged in Vienna, 1914 (Kohn's archives were destroyed in the late 1930s).
Steindl designed primarily for the bentwood, metal and tubular steel
furniture industry in Moravia between 1880 and 1930. However, he was also a
master of historical furniture styles as is shown in his work of the 1880s and
1890s. Steindl's command of historical ornament and construction can be seen in
his interior designs for cafés, restaurants and various room ensembles.
It is also apparent in his ornamental designs for bentwood furniture.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection of ca. 315 original drawings and ca. 571 photographic prints
of furniture designs by Josef Steindl covers the years from ca. 1888 to 1928. Ninety photographs are cyanotypes, 54 are
of blueprints. Each series in the container list describes the
drawings first, followed by the photographs. Few images are dated. Steindl
assigned series numbers to his designs. These and his signature or monogram are
noted. Designs that fall into the category "historic style" are also noted.
Photographers' names and furniture manufacturers' stamps, such as Gebrüder
Thonet and Jacob and Josef Kohn are also mentioned. Photographers include A.
Mocsigay, Strelisky (Budapest), Victor Angerer (Vienna), H. Jandaurek
(Teschen), Photographie Olga (Vienna), J. Hybsa and R. Lechner (Vienna).
Arrangement
The papers are organized in 2 series:
Series
I. Individual pieces of furniture and room and furniture ensembles
;
Series
II. Miscellaneous
.