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Fig. 10. C. Schmidt: Villa Welz in Breslau, front view, 1868. Drawings collection, Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw, Foland.

tesque friezes — he even designed sets of composi-
tional and décorative éléments which he then repeat-
ed in his designs. Luedecke was not reluctant to deco-
rate residential houses with ready-made décorative
patterns, which, in the 19th Century, were frequently
published as ornament samples.
As a follower of plurality in style, Luedecke had
a rather relaxed approach to the problém of combin-
ing motifs from different historical eras within one
façade. In the draft of the design of Oswald’s town-
house, the architect shaped the ground floor in
a clearly ‘Florentine’ style, in the execution project the
‘Renaissance’ ground floor Windows were decorated
with ‘Gothic’ noses. It seems, however, that the ‘tec-
tonic’ cohérence of the façade’s composition was of
prime importance for the artist and he did not fully
manifest the duality of fonctions in his townhouses —
consequently he distinguished only the ground floors,
even if the upper story served mercantile fonctions.

Much doser to the guidelines of Boetticher was
the façade composition of the villa designed by Cari
Schmidt 1868 for Ernst Welz, the master of carpen-
try and owner of carpentry workshop.
Due to the small width of the property, Welz’s
villa was located near the lateral border of the lot,
and, therefore, was illuminated only from three sides,
which significantly influenced the layout of the inte-
rior [Fig. 9]. The dimly illuminated row of rooms at
the dark end wall housed an entry hallway leading to
a spacious staircase, which was inscribed into the
middle passage of the building, and a kitchen with
a pantry. Next to the hallway, in the frontal passage,
there was a sitting room, which adjoined a small hall
open towards the staircase, and the living room lo-
cated in the middle passage. In the rear passage there
was a study and the landlord’s room with a separate
entrance from the garden. On the first floor there
were private rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms. The

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