International studio (41.1910)

The Brussels Exhibition

DINING ROOM FOR A CLUB DESIGNED BY PROF. ALBIN MULLER ; EXECUTED BY TH. ENCKE, MAGDEBURG

prise every variety of apartment, except domestic then, finally, there are various rooms intended
offices, to be found in the houses of the well-to-do. for use as offices of sundry kinds, such as a small
There is, for instance, a study or smoking-room hall for the Rathaus at Karlsruhe, by Prof. Hoff-
for the master of the house, a drawing-room or acker, Director of the School for Applied Art in
" Gesellschafts-salon," a lady's boudoir, a breakfast- that city; a " Trauzimmer" for marriage cere-
room, a dining-room, a bedroom and a night monies; a private office for the President of the
nursery, a bath-room with sumptuous appoint- German Committee at the Exhibition; a press
ments and fittings of diverse kinds, a dressing- room; a reading-room for illustrated periodicals, a
room communicating with a bath-room, besides series of rooms designated as those of a " Kunst-
ante-chambers and lobbies. freund" or art-patron, in which is displayed a
These, however, are not the only examples of choice collection of works of art—paintings, sculp-
interior furnishing which are offered to the visitor ture, drawings, &c. — by some of the leading
in this hall. There are, in addition, a small German artists of the modern school,
number of domestic interiors, more or less akin At first sight, if the visitor be a cultured man ot
in general style to the others, but with a less the Latin race, all this manifestation of German
expensive equipment, these including a couple of decoration and furnishing will perhaps clash with
dining-rooms, one by Karl Bertsch, and the other his taste and habits; but the determined energy
by Prof. Riemerschmid, both of Munich, and a which the whole reveals, and the effort of realisa-
ladies' room by the latter. Further, we find a tion, are such that the feeling of disturbance he
suite of four rooms for a club, including the may have experienced at first will quickly give
dining room by Prof. Albin Miiller, of which place to one of admiration and astonishment: as
an illustration is given above; three rooms de- one gets accustomed to a thing one understands it
signed for a sanatorium—an operating room, a better, and ends by taking account of the necessity
waiting-room, and a consultation room. And of it all, as one might say.
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