Studio: international art (44.1908)

The Hessian National Exhibition at Darmstadt

PAIR OF SEMI - DETACHED COTTAGES FOR ARTISANS DESIGNED BY MAHR &
MARKWORT, ARCHITECTS, FOR DYCKERHOFF & SOHNE OF AMONEBURG ON RHINE

building a single-tenement house containing three
to four rooms must not exceed 4,000 marks,
or ^200; and the furniture 500 to 700 marks
(D25 to d>35) extra. In the case of a house for

two families, containing
seven to eight rooms, the
cost was not to exceed
7,200 marks (^360), or
completely furnished
about 8,000 marks (^400).
Each separate article in the
inventory of the kitchen,
the sitting- or the bed-
rooms may be ordered, and
must be delivered for the
price stated in the list,
which all visitors may
inspect. They are not
“ bogus ” prices, but sub-
ject to public control.

Looking at these homely
abodes in their alluring
landscape environment,
one is tempted to envy
those who may occupy
them, living lives of peace
and plenty, without riches. The vicinity is lovely.
The soft, swelling lines of the Odenwald stretch
far away on the horizon. The half-dozen houses
which form the village are arranged in a sort of

PRINCIPAL ELEVATION OF THE COTTAGES ILLUSTRATED ABOVE