International studio (41.1910)

The Brussels Exhibition

LADY S BOOM DESIGNED BY PROF. R. RIEMERSCHMID
EXECUTED BY THE DEUTSCHE WERKSTATTEN, DRESDEN-HELEERAU

its restaurants and gardens, constitutes within the decoration being added here and there, part of

limits of the Universal Exhibition an entity quite which is relieved by gilding.

distinct from all the rest, and one that is truly Within, we find the halls devoted to a wide variety

national in character. The Munich architect, of objects ; several are occupied with machinery

Prof. Emanuel von SeidI, is the author of the and manufactures ; one, the " Kultushalle," with

general plan, and as an artist he has succeeded in numerous sub-divisions, is set apart for education,

composing a fine architectural ensemble. He and another is consecrated to art as applied to the

has varied the design of these buildings to suit interior equipment of houses and the manifold

their particular purposes, but in their general objects which subserve both useful and ornamental

effect they are all of the same type as the functions in daily life. It is with this division that

"Deutsches Haus." This edifice is the most we are here concerned, although a passing word

conspicuous object in the entire range of buildings should be spared for certain rooms in the " Kultus-

forming the German section, its ascending lines halle," in which the whole of the arts and crafts

producing a vertical break in the horizontal dispo- connected with book-production are represented

sition of the general scheme in which it forms a under various classifications, notable among them

central and culminating point that unites its being a room in which the work of some of the

various members into one coherent whole. The principal book-illustrators of Germany is displayed,

designer has further striven to establish as far as The chief centre of interest in the hall labelled

possible a harmony between the character of his " Raumkunst and Kunstgewerbe," is an extensive

designs and the features of the Pare du Solbosch suite of rooms completely furnished with tables,

in the immediate vicinity of which the buildings chairs, cabinets, carpets, hangings, table services,

have been erected, and in the gardens surround- metal implements and apparatus, and many ot

ing these he has aimed to provide an appropriate them fitted with wainscot panelling. Of this

setting. The exterior of the buildings has been suite of rooms, eleven answer exactly to their

finished in white, with black for the columns and description as the rooms of a "vornehmes Haus"

grey tiles for the roofs, a small amount of plastic —that is, a gentleman's residence—and they com-
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