Alfred Neumann’s Design for a Chair in the Villa of Dr. Slezák in Brno: Evidence of the Origins of His Structural Thinking

This article explores the lesser-known furniture designs of Alfred Neumann, a visionary modernist architect whose innovative thinking shaped postwar architecture in Israel and beyond. Focusing on a modular chair designed by Neumann for the Slezák villa in Brno in the 1930s, the study investigates its structural and proportional relationship to his later architectural works. Through […]

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Architektúra & urbanizmus
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2025-07-25
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https://doi.org/10.31577/archandurb.2025.59.1-2.10
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Architecture and Art History Studies
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Alfred Neumann’s Design for a Chair in the Villa of Dr. Slezák in Brno: Evidence of the Origins of His Structural Thinking

Jiří Gerö
Architektúra & urbanizmus
Architecture and Art History Studies
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Alfred Neumann’s Design for a Chair in the Villa of Dr. Slezák in Brno: Evidence of the Origins of His Structural Thinking

Jiří Gerö
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Abstract

This article explores the lesser-known furniture designs of Alfred Neumann, a visionary modernist architect whose innovative thinking shaped postwar architecture in Israel and beyond. Focusing on a modular chair designed by Neumann for the Slezák villa in Brno in the 1930s, the study investigates its structural and proportional relationship to his later architectural works. Through […]

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