DOI Artikel:
Barba, Eleonore: The sensible home-modern interior decoration
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.7098#0070
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Creative Hands
No. 735
Phot. Kaufmann, München
• Curtains in a Moving Picture Theatre in Munich, designed by Professor von Weech
▼ Bühnenvorhang, Kammerlichtspiele München. Material: Schwere Kunstseide. Entworfen und ausgeführt von Prof. von Weech
a new style created especially tor these altered conditions!
It is in response to the new requirements in inferior decoration
that architects are beginning to interest themselves not only
in the planning of the home, but also in the task of designing
its inferior appointments—furniture, walls, draperies — to form
a unified, harmonious whole. European architects and crafts-
men are working together to attain this new ideal, and their
influence is beginning to be feit in America.
Of unusual interestistheworkof ProfessorSigmund vonWeech,
of Munich, who is not only an architect and designer, but a
craftsman as well. It was ten years ago, during the trying times
immediately following the World War, that Professor von
Weech, working from a model in the Deutsches Museum in
Munich, constructed his first loom and began experimenting
with weaving. That first loom established the beginning of
what has since grown to be a home industry of international
reputation, producing hand-woven materials chiefly for use in
interior decoration. As it is the conviction of Professor von
Weech that both furniture and fabrics should be especially
designed with reference to their environment, each commission
is a new challenge to his creative skill, and is executed with
fresh enthusiasm.
Among the most recent and interesting creations of Pro-
fessor von Weech's studio is the living-room pictured in the
accompanying illustration. The walls are covered with a rieh
material of linen and silk in oyster white, with an unique, woven
design of coloured raffia. The largeness of its piain surfaces,
the simplicity of line and fine colouring of its design, give the
room a light airiness that is restful and at the same time inter-
esting. Pleasing contrasts in colour and simplicity of form are
achieved in the furnishings, which are of chrome steel construc-
tion, combined with wood in red lacquer. The black and white
fabric used in the upholstering is a new development which
promisesto become populär. It is woven of tiny celluloid wires,
each as fine as horse-hair and giving the same effect, as
the woof of heavy cord; the result is a smooth-surfaced mat-
erial of excellent wearing qualities. The whole spirit of the
room in its quiet simplicity, and its harmonious blending of
colour, is representative of the best that is being offered by
these modern architect-decorators. One is Struck at a first
glimpse with the feeling of openness; here is a room in which
it is possible to breathe freely and in comfort—an enormous
gain compared with the oppressively heavy or ornate styles
of former years.
It is impossible in the course of so short an article to describe
in detail the endless variety of materials which come from this
Workshop. There are royon chenille drapery materials, hang-
ing in long, gracetully soft folds, so gauzy that they have
Creative Hands
No. 735
Phot. Kaufmann, München
• Curtains in a Moving Picture Theatre in Munich, designed by Professor von Weech
▼ Bühnenvorhang, Kammerlichtspiele München. Material: Schwere Kunstseide. Entworfen und ausgeführt von Prof. von Weech
a new style created especially tor these altered conditions!
It is in response to the new requirements in inferior decoration
that architects are beginning to interest themselves not only
in the planning of the home, but also in the task of designing
its inferior appointments—furniture, walls, draperies — to form
a unified, harmonious whole. European architects and crafts-
men are working together to attain this new ideal, and their
influence is beginning to be feit in America.
Of unusual interestistheworkof ProfessorSigmund vonWeech,
of Munich, who is not only an architect and designer, but a
craftsman as well. It was ten years ago, during the trying times
immediately following the World War, that Professor von
Weech, working from a model in the Deutsches Museum in
Munich, constructed his first loom and began experimenting
with weaving. That first loom established the beginning of
what has since grown to be a home industry of international
reputation, producing hand-woven materials chiefly for use in
interior decoration. As it is the conviction of Professor von
Weech that both furniture and fabrics should be especially
designed with reference to their environment, each commission
is a new challenge to his creative skill, and is executed with
fresh enthusiasm.
Among the most recent and interesting creations of Pro-
fessor von Weech's studio is the living-room pictured in the
accompanying illustration. The walls are covered with a rieh
material of linen and silk in oyster white, with an unique, woven
design of coloured raffia. The largeness of its piain surfaces,
the simplicity of line and fine colouring of its design, give the
room a light airiness that is restful and at the same time inter-
esting. Pleasing contrasts in colour and simplicity of form are
achieved in the furnishings, which are of chrome steel construc-
tion, combined with wood in red lacquer. The black and white
fabric used in the upholstering is a new development which
promisesto become populär. It is woven of tiny celluloid wires,
each as fine as horse-hair and giving the same effect, as
the woof of heavy cord; the result is a smooth-surfaced mat-
erial of excellent wearing qualities. The whole spirit of the
room in its quiet simplicity, and its harmonious blending of
colour, is representative of the best that is being offered by
these modern architect-decorators. One is Struck at a first
glimpse with the feeling of openness; here is a room in which
it is possible to breathe freely and in comfort—an enormous
gain compared with the oppressively heavy or ornate styles
of former years.
It is impossible in the course of so short an article to describe
in detail the endless variety of materials which come from this
Workshop. There are royon chenille drapery materials, hang-
ing in long, gracetully soft folds, so gauzy that they have