DOI issue:
No. 185 (August 1912)
DOI article:Schölermann, Wilhelm: The Hessian National Exhibition at Darmstadt
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20778#0244
The Hessian National Exhibition at Darmstadt
A VIEW OF THE COTTAGE COLONY AT THE HESSIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION
wood being used for the table, chairs, bookcases
and wall panelling. Prof. Fritz Schumacher has
installed a dining-room with subdued dark-toned
wood-panelling elaborately inlaid ; but
the table and chairs are much too insig-
nificant and not agreeable in their linear
proportions. Jacob Krug, a young
architect, formerly in the Lehratelier of
Prof. Olbrich, presents a dining-room
and a drawing-room evincing fair talent
and good execution, though perhaps not
in all respects satisfactory in the detail.
The rooms after designs by Albin
Miiller are conspicuous by their refine-
ment and luxury. Here we find the
complete household equipment for a
family of means and taste, especially
notable being the Musikzimmer with its
magnificent display of decoration and
birch wood inlays, the lady’s boudoir and
gentleman’s study in polished tabasco
mahogany, and a lady’s room in pear-
wood, with inlay of mother-of-pearl.
The “Kleinwohnungs-Kolonie” forms
a chapter by itself, and it is well worth
reading indeed. The artistic and the
social question here unite to make the
workmen’s village, or “ Arbeiterdorf,” a
centre of attraction. For the architect
the small dwelling certainly presents a
problem of intense calculation, not only
in regard to economy of space and
economy of means, but also in regard
to economy (which implies in this case
beauty) of line and of ornament. These
problems are not merely
aesthetic, they have to a
certain extent an ethical
basis, and are therefore a
matter for contemplation
alike by the teacher, the
social reformer, the
minister, and the political
economist. We know that
to build bad, ugly dwell-
ings is much too costly in
any case. But we know
now—and here we have
eloquent proof of the fact
—that it is cheaper to
build houses that are at
once more substantial,
more comely, comfortable,
and healthy.
There are here six altogether different types of
houses suitable for artisans. It was laid down
as a condition applicable to all that the price of
HILL-SIDE GARDEN ADJOINING COTTAGE COLONY. PLANNED BY
H. WIENKOOP
22 I
A VIEW OF THE COTTAGE COLONY AT THE HESSIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION
wood being used for the table, chairs, bookcases
and wall panelling. Prof. Fritz Schumacher has
installed a dining-room with subdued dark-toned
wood-panelling elaborately inlaid ; but
the table and chairs are much too insig-
nificant and not agreeable in their linear
proportions. Jacob Krug, a young
architect, formerly in the Lehratelier of
Prof. Olbrich, presents a dining-room
and a drawing-room evincing fair talent
and good execution, though perhaps not
in all respects satisfactory in the detail.
The rooms after designs by Albin
Miiller are conspicuous by their refine-
ment and luxury. Here we find the
complete household equipment for a
family of means and taste, especially
notable being the Musikzimmer with its
magnificent display of decoration and
birch wood inlays, the lady’s boudoir and
gentleman’s study in polished tabasco
mahogany, and a lady’s room in pear-
wood, with inlay of mother-of-pearl.
The “Kleinwohnungs-Kolonie” forms
a chapter by itself, and it is well worth
reading indeed. The artistic and the
social question here unite to make the
workmen’s village, or “ Arbeiterdorf,” a
centre of attraction. For the architect
the small dwelling certainly presents a
problem of intense calculation, not only
in regard to economy of space and
economy of means, but also in regard
to economy (which implies in this case
beauty) of line and of ornament. These
problems are not merely
aesthetic, they have to a
certain extent an ethical
basis, and are therefore a
matter for contemplation
alike by the teacher, the
social reformer, the
minister, and the political
economist. We know that
to build bad, ugly dwell-
ings is much too costly in
any case. But we know
now—and here we have
eloquent proof of the fact
—that it is cheaper to
build houses that are at
once more substantial,
more comely, comfortable,
and healthy.
There are here six altogether different types of
houses suitable for artisans. It was laid down
as a condition applicable to all that the price of
HILL-SIDE GARDEN ADJOINING COTTAGE COLONY. PLANNED BY
H. WIENKOOP
22 I