DOI issue:
No. 155 (February, 1906)
DOI article:Levetus, A. S.: Otto Prutscher: a young Viennese designer of interiors
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0056
Otto Prutscher
further opportunities will be given him to show
his capabilities in this direction. The tea-house
was very fresh and dainty; there was a charm
about it which seemed to exclude the idea of
coffee, almost invariably associated as it is with
smoking, billiards and card-playing. Here tea and
pleasant chats seemed to be the keynote. The
designs were uniformly excellent, and the chairs
had the additional attraction of being comfortable.
Prutscher took advantage of the opportunity offered
him to show what sort of mettle he is made of.
Everything in the tea-house was designed by him,
and here he proved that he possesses true talent
and originality. He kept the main object, utility,
well before him, with the result that use and
beauty were combined in due proportion. Too
little regard is often paid to the practical require-
ments in the designing of furniture, but Herr
Prutscher does not err in this point. The furniture
of this tea-house is enamelled white, so that it can
always be kept spotlessly clean, and the whole room
was a pleasant revelation of decorative possibilities.
In his interiors also Prutscher is careful not
to lose sight of the practical, but never sacrifices
the artistic to obtain this aim ; each element has its
due place, the one supplementing the other, and
harmonising with it, instead of conflicting with it,
as is so often the case. He possesses that true
artistic feeling for ornamentation which makes him
at once realise its proper limits; he knows the
value of different woods, metals, mother-of-pearl
and other materials used in decoration, and shows
excellent judgment in the uses to which he puts
them. A smoking-room in Italian acacia afforded
an example of this. The mahogany and mother-of-
pearl intarsia made a pleasing impression, there
being just the right proportion of decoration. Of
the various other interiors by Prutscher shown at
the exhibition a bedroom in light oak with lines of
intarsia, executed by Anton Popischil, and another
in ash with an ebony intarsia, executed by Karl
Frommel, revealed the architect's resourcefulness in
invention and refinement of conception, while a dress-
ing-room, white enamelled, executed by Engelbert
Malek, furnished another proof of his lively fancy
and sense of proportion in the adjustment of lines.
INLAID CABINET WORK
36
DESIGNED BY OTTO PRUTSCHER
EXECUTED BY A.' POPISCHIL
GLASS BY GEYLING'S ERBEN
further opportunities will be given him to show
his capabilities in this direction. The tea-house
was very fresh and dainty; there was a charm
about it which seemed to exclude the idea of
coffee, almost invariably associated as it is with
smoking, billiards and card-playing. Here tea and
pleasant chats seemed to be the keynote. The
designs were uniformly excellent, and the chairs
had the additional attraction of being comfortable.
Prutscher took advantage of the opportunity offered
him to show what sort of mettle he is made of.
Everything in the tea-house was designed by him,
and here he proved that he possesses true talent
and originality. He kept the main object, utility,
well before him, with the result that use and
beauty were combined in due proportion. Too
little regard is often paid to the practical require-
ments in the designing of furniture, but Herr
Prutscher does not err in this point. The furniture
of this tea-house is enamelled white, so that it can
always be kept spotlessly clean, and the whole room
was a pleasant revelation of decorative possibilities.
In his interiors also Prutscher is careful not
to lose sight of the practical, but never sacrifices
the artistic to obtain this aim ; each element has its
due place, the one supplementing the other, and
harmonising with it, instead of conflicting with it,
as is so often the case. He possesses that true
artistic feeling for ornamentation which makes him
at once realise its proper limits; he knows the
value of different woods, metals, mother-of-pearl
and other materials used in decoration, and shows
excellent judgment in the uses to which he puts
them. A smoking-room in Italian acacia afforded
an example of this. The mahogany and mother-of-
pearl intarsia made a pleasing impression, there
being just the right proportion of decoration. Of
the various other interiors by Prutscher shown at
the exhibition a bedroom in light oak with lines of
intarsia, executed by Anton Popischil, and another
in ash with an ebony intarsia, executed by Karl
Frommel, revealed the architect's resourcefulness in
invention and refinement of conception, while a dress-
ing-room, white enamelled, executed by Engelbert
Malek, furnished another proof of his lively fancy
and sense of proportion in the adjustment of lines.
INLAID CABINET WORK
36
DESIGNED BY OTTO PRUTSCHER
EXECUTED BY A.' POPISCHIL
GLASS BY GEYLING'S ERBEN