International studio (47.1912)

Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture


music-room is green and
white, with furniture of
ebony. In other rooms
citron wood, oak, and pine
have been used to impart
a pleasing variety. Pic-
torial and plastic decora-
tion has been resorted to
but sparingly, Herr
Renner’s chief aim being
to avoid superfluous orna-
mentation and to rely on
the materials used as the
principal source of decora-
tion.
Two markedly con-
trasted types of Russian
architecture are presented
in the drawings by a young
Polish architect, George
Lukomski, which we are

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PAUL RENNER, ARCHITECT

reproducing in colour.
M. Lukomski, who is an

of these interiors is the employment of the choicer
kinds of wood. Thus for the walls and ceiling of
the lofty hall, as well as the doors opening on to it,
and the staircase, mahogany and ebony with inlay
have been used. For the dining-room elm has been
employed throughout. The scheme of the oval

alumnus of the Imperial Academy in St. Peters-
burg, has displayed a rare talent for portraying the
various types of building which are to*be found in
the cities, small towns, and villages of European
Russia, and especially in the south-western pro-
vinces, which at one time formed part of the


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