Los Bar in the Mackey Apartments. (MAK Center for Arts and Architecture)
All summer the Los Bar—built by MAK Center residents Andreas Bauer, Christoph Meier, Robert Schwarz, and Lukas Stopczynski—gave those without airline travel points a taste of Vienna.
The real thing: Adolf Loos’s American Bar, in Vienna was completed in 1908. (Photo Credit: Dierk Schaefer via Flickr)
Constructed in a garage of R.M. Schindler’s Mackey Apartments, the saloon mimics Adolf Loos’ American Bar, swapping out onyx and marble for painted MDF and cardboard. Police shut down the blind pig due to neighbor complaints, but we’re hoping all is not lost for Los/Loos. AN may volunteer the LA HQ for a Loos weekend.
