DOI Heft:
No. 111 (June, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Levetus, A. S.: Austrian section at the Turin Exhibition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19876#0060
Turin Exhibition
arranged the Austrian section of the last Paris Everything is designed for practical use, and there
Exhibition. He regrets other nations not having are no superfluities. A very interesting piece of
been as pretentious as Austria. " How instructive work is a dining-room suite, designed and executed
it would have been for the whole world," he told by Josef Wytrlik, of Vienna. This won the first
me, " had England had her own villa, appointed prize given for cheap furniture in a competition
and furnished by Englishmen." In the pavilion at the Imperial Austrian Museum. It is of
collective objects are exhibited, while the villa elm, dark brown in colour, and consists of a
is appointed and furnished in modern style, sideboard, a buffet, table, and twelve chairs.
but without any exaggerations. The outward Everything is conceived with an eye to simplicity
decoration of these buildings is very simple, and utility. The edges are rounded off to prevent
the architect having contented himself with a
conventional motive of flowers. The facades are
in grey, while the chief entrance is ornamented
with the Austrian colours, black and yellow. In
each corner is a female genius, the work of the
well-known sculptor, Schimkowitz; the friezes
are by Engelhardt. The interior ornamentation
is equally simple. Here are a number of rooms.
Messrs. Deutsch & Co., of Brunn (Moravia),
show what here is known as a " gentleman's
room," designed by Professor Rudolf Hammel.
It is very massive in construction, though simple
in intention, the wood being dark mahogany.
goblet in "ice glass
1sy r. marschall
unkind knocks, the chairs, very lightly mounted
in leather, have nickel clamps to prevent damage.
Another dining-room, designed by Karl Witzmann,
a young student at the Imperial School for
Decorative Art, and executed by Jacob Soulek,
is a fine piece of work. Its beauty lies in
the design, and its richness in the execution
and choice of materials. The opposite side
of the pavilion is taken up with exhibits of
various kinds. Gustav Gurschner, of Vienna,
has a number of charming works—examples ot
that delicacy of workmanship and conception
for which he is so well known. Messrs. Pollak
have, among other specimens of their work,
an interesting tea-service. The designer is Herr
Barwig, a pupil of the Austrian Museum School.
Here we have a fine piece of workmanship,
combined with beauty of form—very remark-
able in this land, where even now tea is looked
copper clock
designed by otto prutscher
executed by nikolas stadler upon by many as a sort of medicine. A wine-
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arranged the Austrian section of the last Paris Everything is designed for practical use, and there
Exhibition. He regrets other nations not having are no superfluities. A very interesting piece of
been as pretentious as Austria. " How instructive work is a dining-room suite, designed and executed
it would have been for the whole world," he told by Josef Wytrlik, of Vienna. This won the first
me, " had England had her own villa, appointed prize given for cheap furniture in a competition
and furnished by Englishmen." In the pavilion at the Imperial Austrian Museum. It is of
collective objects are exhibited, while the villa elm, dark brown in colour, and consists of a
is appointed and furnished in modern style, sideboard, a buffet, table, and twelve chairs.
but without any exaggerations. The outward Everything is conceived with an eye to simplicity
decoration of these buildings is very simple, and utility. The edges are rounded off to prevent
the architect having contented himself with a
conventional motive of flowers. The facades are
in grey, while the chief entrance is ornamented
with the Austrian colours, black and yellow. In
each corner is a female genius, the work of the
well-known sculptor, Schimkowitz; the friezes
are by Engelhardt. The interior ornamentation
is equally simple. Here are a number of rooms.
Messrs. Deutsch & Co., of Brunn (Moravia),
show what here is known as a " gentleman's
room," designed by Professor Rudolf Hammel.
It is very massive in construction, though simple
in intention, the wood being dark mahogany.
goblet in "ice glass
1sy r. marschall
unkind knocks, the chairs, very lightly mounted
in leather, have nickel clamps to prevent damage.
Another dining-room, designed by Karl Witzmann,
a young student at the Imperial School for
Decorative Art, and executed by Jacob Soulek,
is a fine piece of work. Its beauty lies in
the design, and its richness in the execution
and choice of materials. The opposite side
of the pavilion is taken up with exhibits of
various kinds. Gustav Gurschner, of Vienna,
has a number of charming works—examples ot
that delicacy of workmanship and conception
for which he is so well known. Messrs. Pollak
have, among other specimens of their work,
an interesting tea-service. The designer is Herr
Barwig, a pupil of the Austrian Museum School.
Here we have a fine piece of workmanship,
combined with beauty of form—very remark-
able in this land, where even now tea is looked
copper clock
designed by otto prutscher
executed by nikolas stadler upon by many as a sort of medicine. A wine-
48