My first encounter with Café Museum came at the invitation of a friend, and left enough of a positive impression that I passed on the favour by inviting another friend to join me there for breakfast. (I imagine some of the sketches on left-behind napkins were rather intriguing and would be worth a fortune today.) He himself became a regular guest, as apparently did Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt, Franz Lehár, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele. Loos’s unpretentious, simplistic approach proved a magnet to artists and intellectuals of the time. He was none other than Adolf Loos, one of the fathers of modern architecture and active around the time of Viennese modernism. The Café Museum traces its origins back to 1899 and occupies a special place in art history, thanks to the fellow who took care of the interior design.
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