American bar

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Loos American Bar in Carinthian passage no.10
American bar view through the window

The American Bar or Kärntner Bar , now also known as Loos-Bar or Loos American Bar , is a small bar in Kärntner Durchgang No. 10, a side street of Kärntner Straße in the 1st  district of Inner City . It was designed by the architect Adolf Loos in the Art Deco style and is now a listed building .

history

Adolf Loos designed the bar in 1908, also based on his experience during a stay in the United States from 1893 to 1896. The interior is only 4.40 × 6.00 × 4.10 m. Mirrors give the room additional depth. The materials used are wood , glass , brass and onyx . The bar is one of the early works of architectural modernism in Vienna and is assigned to the Art Deco style .

In 1989 the Loos Bar was restored by Burkhardt Rukschcio, and the portal sign, reconstructed by Hermann Czech for an exhibition in 1985, was attached. Since the 110th anniversary on June 21, 2018, the employees have been wearing outfits specially designed for the Loos Bar by the Austrian-Vietnamese designer La Hong .

Operation of the Loos Bar

The bar is run by Loos-Bar Barbetriebsgesellschaft mbH, founded in March 1976. It has been managed since 1995 by Marianne Kohn (born October 27, 1945), who ran the Viennese scene club U4 from 1983 to 1987 , where she was also a bartender. In a portrait of the German world in 2012 as the “Queen of the Night” and “probably the most famous bar woman in Vienna”, Kohn has also been the commercial manager of the Loos Bar since November 2003. Adolf Loos worked with her ancestors, the furniture manufacturers Jakob and Josef Kohn .

From January 2002 Hans Krankl was one of the shareholders of the operating company until its shares were taken over by Skender Fani in March 2009 .

Web links

Commons : American Bar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jenny Gibbs: Interior Design. Laurence King Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-85669-428-3 , p. 5.
  2. ↑ man: There was a lot of "Loos" at the 110th anniversary. The Loos Bar is celebrating a milestone birthday this year. With old stories of stars holding onto the counter and new uniforms. Come in! In: Heute.at , June 22, 2018, accessed December 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ Loos-Bar Barbetriebsgesellschaft mbH (LOOS American Bar), FN 113709w. In: firmenabc.at, accessed on December 9, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c Marianne Kohn in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna , accessed on December 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Commercial Register at the Commercial Court of Vienna, November 18, 2003: Change of managing director of Loos-Bar Barbetriebsgesellschaft mbH, FN 113709w, from Josef Haberfellner (March 7, 1955) to Marianne Kohn (October 27, 1945). Entry in firmenmonitor.at. In: Official section of the Wiener Zeitung, accessed on December 9, 2019.
  6. ↑ Cordula Reyer : Marianne Kohn: Queen of the Night rules in Vienna's most mythical bar. As a child Marianne Kohn wanted to be a cleaning lady, later she was an editor for Fellini and a friend of Falco. The doyenne of Viennese nightlife has been running the legendary “Loos Bar” for 17 years. Interview. In: Die Welt , July 31, 2012.
  7. ↑ Commercial register at the Vienna Commercial Court, January 11, 2002, announced on January 15: Johann Krankl (February 14, 1953) as a partner in Loos-Bar Barbetriebsgesellschaft mbH, FN 113709w. Entry in firmenmonitor.at. In: Official section of the Wiener Zeitung, accessed on December 9, 2019.
  8. ^ Commercial register at the Vienna Commercial Court, February 18, 2009, announced on March 5, 2009: Skender Fani (February 23, 1940) as a partner in Loos-Bar Barbetriebsgesellschaft mbH, FN 113709w. Entry in firmenmonitor.at. In: Official section of the Wiener Zeitung, accessed on December 9, 2019.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 25.8 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 16.4 ″  E