DOI Heft:
No. 125 (July 1907)
DOI Artikel:Studio talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28252#0089
Studio-Talk
of an ethical as well as an esthetic nature, encounters
difficulties where, as often happens, a building or
suite of rooms has to be re-adapted to purposes
for which the original style and character of the
design are entirely unsuited.
Prof, van de Velde has lately met with marked
success in dealing with these and other problems
confronting him. His method of treatment,
which at one time showed a preference for
the flowing line, is now characterised by a
strict adherence to the straight line and rectan-
gular style ; this is well exemplified in some of his
later productions, as, for instance, the library of the
Nietzsche-Archiv at Weimar, Count Kessler’s draw-
ing-room, and various other private apartments at
Liibeck, Kiel, Chemnitz and elsewhere, and again
in the counting-house of a bank at Mannheim.
The designs here illustrated comprise a part of
the premises of Mr. Gutbier, the art dealer,
formerly known as the Arnold’sche Hofkunsthand-
lung. In the staircase the iron portions, instead
of being concealed, have been intentionally left
uncovered, and such use of the material naturally
gives rise to new problems of form and colour.
Besides iron, the materials used include stained
oak, marble and plaster; the colour scheme is
blue, with grey and gold for the stencil ornament
on wall and ceiling. Turning next to the ante-
room, the walls here are held in grey and pink ;
the glass cabinets containing silverware, jewellery
and pottery from the Thuringian Factories at
Burge], near Jena. W. S.
PARIS. — Notwithstanding the preparations
for the opening of the annual salons,
numerous small exhibitions were held
here in private galleries during the month
of April. The most important among them was
the one held at the Cercle Volney, where a retro-
spective exhibition of the works of Henner was
arranged by a group of his ardent admirers. The
collection enabled one to study the evolution of
this highly gifted master, who, while continuing
faithful to the same form of art, was unfortunately
A ROOM AT MR. GUTBIER’s GALLERY, DRESDEN
DESIGNED BY H. VAN DE VELDE
73
of an ethical as well as an esthetic nature, encounters
difficulties where, as often happens, a building or
suite of rooms has to be re-adapted to purposes
for which the original style and character of the
design are entirely unsuited.
Prof, van de Velde has lately met with marked
success in dealing with these and other problems
confronting him. His method of treatment,
which at one time showed a preference for
the flowing line, is now characterised by a
strict adherence to the straight line and rectan-
gular style ; this is well exemplified in some of his
later productions, as, for instance, the library of the
Nietzsche-Archiv at Weimar, Count Kessler’s draw-
ing-room, and various other private apartments at
Liibeck, Kiel, Chemnitz and elsewhere, and again
in the counting-house of a bank at Mannheim.
The designs here illustrated comprise a part of
the premises of Mr. Gutbier, the art dealer,
formerly known as the Arnold’sche Hofkunsthand-
lung. In the staircase the iron portions, instead
of being concealed, have been intentionally left
uncovered, and such use of the material naturally
gives rise to new problems of form and colour.
Besides iron, the materials used include stained
oak, marble and plaster; the colour scheme is
blue, with grey and gold for the stencil ornament
on wall and ceiling. Turning next to the ante-
room, the walls here are held in grey and pink ;
the glass cabinets containing silverware, jewellery
and pottery from the Thuringian Factories at
Burge], near Jena. W. S.
PARIS. — Notwithstanding the preparations
for the opening of the annual salons,
numerous small exhibitions were held
here in private galleries during the month
of April. The most important among them was
the one held at the Cercle Volney, where a retro-
spective exhibition of the works of Henner was
arranged by a group of his ardent admirers. The
collection enabled one to study the evolution of
this highly gifted master, who, while continuing
faithful to the same form of art, was unfortunately
A ROOM AT MR. GUTBIER’s GALLERY, DRESDEN
DESIGNED BY H. VAN DE VELDE
73