DOI issue:
Nr. 188 (November 1908)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20965#0173
Studio-Talk
MUNICH.— Only within the past two or
three years has German applied ait,
in its later development, extended its
conquest to the interior decoration
and furnishing of ocean-going steamships ; and
if up to the present time no more than a pair
of cruisers of the Imperial Navy and some four
liners of the Lloyd service have been fitted up
according to modern ideas, a beginning has at all
events been made which in more respects than
one is of great significance. It was of course to
be expected that the glaring antithesis between
the nature and purpose of the ship itself, built as
it is to perform a purely useful function, and the
purposeless character of its interior decorations and
appointments, would at last impress itself on those
concerned, but thanks mainly to the initiative of
the director-general, Dr. Wiegand, it was reserved
for the North German Lloyd, whose ambition
it is to own the fastest and best equipped liners
in the world, to resolutely take the decisive step.
The new departure was inaugurated two years ago,
when the company invited the leading architects
for interiors to fit up the cabins de luxe of the
“ Kronprinzessin Cecilie.” From the tacit competi-
tion which then took place Bruno Paul emerged
victorious, and it was therefore only natural that
he should be afterwards entrusted with the appoint-
ments of the steamships “ Derfflinger ” and “ Prinz
Friedrich Wilhelm,” followed by the “ George
Washington,” the latest addition to the fleet.
In the case of the “ Kronprinzessin Cecilie ” the
architects’commissions extended only to the arrange-
ment of the cabins, but with the later vessels they
were given in addition the saloons and other public
apartments. Now while it may be a tolerably easy
task to design an interior of the modest dimensions
of a cabin with full regard to comfort and con.
venience, it is a much more difficult undertaking to
equip a large reading or dining saloon in such a
way as to give it a pleasant appearance in spite or
the limitations imposed by structural conditions, and
at the same time to ensure its perfect adaptation to
the purposes contemplated, while giving it a distinc-
tive character. For here the conditions are not those
BREAKFAST ROOM ON THE NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD SS. “GEORGE WASHINGTON.” DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT R. A.
SCHRÖDER. EXECUTED BY THE VEREINIGTE WERKSTÄTTEN FÜR KUNST IM HANDWERK, A.G., MUNICH AND BREMEN
MUNICH.— Only within the past two or
three years has German applied ait,
in its later development, extended its
conquest to the interior decoration
and furnishing of ocean-going steamships ; and
if up to the present time no more than a pair
of cruisers of the Imperial Navy and some four
liners of the Lloyd service have been fitted up
according to modern ideas, a beginning has at all
events been made which in more respects than
one is of great significance. It was of course to
be expected that the glaring antithesis between
the nature and purpose of the ship itself, built as
it is to perform a purely useful function, and the
purposeless character of its interior decorations and
appointments, would at last impress itself on those
concerned, but thanks mainly to the initiative of
the director-general, Dr. Wiegand, it was reserved
for the North German Lloyd, whose ambition
it is to own the fastest and best equipped liners
in the world, to resolutely take the decisive step.
The new departure was inaugurated two years ago,
when the company invited the leading architects
for interiors to fit up the cabins de luxe of the
“ Kronprinzessin Cecilie.” From the tacit competi-
tion which then took place Bruno Paul emerged
victorious, and it was therefore only natural that
he should be afterwards entrusted with the appoint-
ments of the steamships “ Derfflinger ” and “ Prinz
Friedrich Wilhelm,” followed by the “ George
Washington,” the latest addition to the fleet.
In the case of the “ Kronprinzessin Cecilie ” the
architects’commissions extended only to the arrange-
ment of the cabins, but with the later vessels they
were given in addition the saloons and other public
apartments. Now while it may be a tolerably easy
task to design an interior of the modest dimensions
of a cabin with full regard to comfort and con.
venience, it is a much more difficult undertaking to
equip a large reading or dining saloon in such a
way as to give it a pleasant appearance in spite or
the limitations imposed by structural conditions, and
at the same time to ensure its perfect adaptation to
the purposes contemplated, while giving it a distinc-
tive character. For here the conditions are not those
BREAKFAST ROOM ON THE NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD SS. “GEORGE WASHINGTON.” DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT R. A.
SCHRÖDER. EXECUTED BY THE VEREINIGTE WERKSTÄTTEN FÜR KUNST IM HANDWERK, A.G., MUNICH AND BREMEN