Palais Chotek is a

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palace in

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. It is located at Währinger Straße 28 in the IX. district of

Alsergrund Alsergrund (; ) is the ninth district of Vienna, Austria (). It is located just north of the first, central district, Innere Stadt. Alsergrund was incorporated in 1862, with seven suburbs. As a central district, the area is densely populated. Accor ...

. The building is named after the noble

Chotek family The Chotek family was an old and influential Czech noble family in the Kingdom of Bohemia, whose members occupied many important positions within the Holy Roman Empire and later in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. History The family is first do ...

. For over a century, it has been the headquarters of the Friedrich Otto Schmidt home furnishings company.

Friedrich Otto Schmidt home furnishings

Carl Friedrich Schmidt was member of a carpenter family in

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and settled in

in 1858 to work for the wallpaper retail company Tapeten-Niederlage F Schmidt & Sugg. In 1863 Friedrich Otto Schmidt home furnishings was registered as a company and began producing furniture.

Adolf Loos Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known c ...

later exercised an enduring creative influence on the company furniture design. Today the company also carries out restorations so handcrafted wood works continue to function as home furnishing.

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Chotek Baroque architecture in Vienna Buildings and structures in Alsergrund Chotek family {{Austria-palace-stub