International studio (35.1908)

Studio- Talk

tions given last month of
a workman’s cottage de-
signed by Herr Metzen-
dorf for Messrs. Dorr and
Reinhart, of Worms, are
now supplemented by
another (page 305), show-
ing the situation of the
green-tiled stove, which is
a very ingenious contri-
vance. It is so let into
the middle wall as to
warm all three rooms at
once if required, the
apparatus being fitted with
valves which enable this
to be done. I should
mention that for per-
mission to reproduce
various of the illustrations

CORNER OF A SMOKING ROOM

DESIGNED BY PROF. ALBIN MULLER
EXECUTED BY J. TRIER



FOUNTAIN COURT AT HESSIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION, DARMSTADT
DESIGNED BY PROF. ALBIN MULLER

of cottages forming the “ Klein-
wohnungs - Kolonie ” we are
indebted to the Ernst Ludwig
Verein, a society which aims to
provide convenient and com-
fortable dwellings for people of
modest means.
In summing up what
Darmstadt this year has shown
us in the departments of Applied
Art and Architecture, we may
observe a remarkable effort
towards complete technical
efficiency displayed in nearly
every section as the outcome
of seven years’ training. There
is a tendency towards luxury
of material counterbalanced by
simplicity of design. Orna-
mentation, purely speaking, is
now restricted to the least pos-
sible by most artists and
architects, who recognise that
unless we find again a basis
for pure constructive design
ornament in itself is superfluous
or worse than that. W. S.
P.S.—While revising these
notes news reaches me of the
sudden death of Prof. Olbrich

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