DOI Heft:
No. 198 (September, 1908)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0347
Studio-Talk
BEDROOM DESIGNED BY PROF. FRANK SEECK
[Exhibition of Furniture Trimmings, Berlin)
the idea of infusing fresh life into a somewhat lagging
industry. This undertaking is sure to achieve its
purpose, as the fabrics on view offer an interesting
study and are presented in an exceptionally ap-
propriate setting. The architect, Paul Thiersch,
has erected within the beautiful state-hall of the
museum a kind of peristyle containing different
rooms, an altar-niche and a funeral decoration, to
prove the utility and fine effect of such
modern textiles applied to interior deco-
ration, and many exhibits are besides laid
out in single cases. Modern manufac-
turers have recognised the necessity of
adapting such wares to the simpler and
more constructive style of our day; they
have produced braids, tassels and fringes
after designs by well-known craftsmen. A
collection of historical trimmings from the
Middle Ages down to the nineteenth cen-
tury convinces one of the excellence of old
textiles, especially those of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. They are dis-
tinguished by lightness, richness of design
and interesting technique, which makes
but slight use of the wooden filling.
Modern trimmings have profited by the
teachings of the past, and at the same
time answer the demands of our day.
In their modest colouring and cleverly
adapted design they appear desirable com-
pletions of the furniture, and good substitutes
for friezes and borders. Objections will certainly
be made: by friends of stone or wooden wall
ornaments, but these woven or plaited additions
are of great solidity, and can improve a plain
style as well as enhance elegance. The different
rooms offer welcome object lessons. Professor
Bruno Paul, the manysided craftsman, upholds
his reputation for distinguished and solid taste
by a room in grey velvet with trimmings in
green and black, and by a fine choice of single
articles. Professor Franz Seeck has designed
a very neat and bright bedroom in sand-colour,
with wall-borderings of olive satin set in narrow
braids of black with silver and gold. The sofa
recess, after the design of the architect Paul
Thiersch and Fraulein Feldkircher, with its
intense notes of ochre and blue, is intended to
carry a strong colour accent into an interior of
reserved tenor. Director Dr. Jessen and superior
craftsmen like Professor Schulze-Naumburg, the
Berlin Municipal Weaving School, some emi-
nent architects and technical teachers, as well as
various first-class manufacturers, have co-oper-
ated to create this original and useful exhibition.
The Berlin Joiners’ Guild has been holding in
the extensive buildings of the Zoological Garden
an exhibition of interior decoration and Berlin
wood fabrics, which is proving one of the strongest
attractions of this summer season. The valuation
of our artisans has been somewhat neglected by
RECEPTION ROOM DESIGNED BY PROF. BRUNO PAUL
[Exhibition of Furniture Trunmings, Berlin)
3T3
BEDROOM DESIGNED BY PROF. FRANK SEECK
[Exhibition of Furniture Trimmings, Berlin)
the idea of infusing fresh life into a somewhat lagging
industry. This undertaking is sure to achieve its
purpose, as the fabrics on view offer an interesting
study and are presented in an exceptionally ap-
propriate setting. The architect, Paul Thiersch,
has erected within the beautiful state-hall of the
museum a kind of peristyle containing different
rooms, an altar-niche and a funeral decoration, to
prove the utility and fine effect of such
modern textiles applied to interior deco-
ration, and many exhibits are besides laid
out in single cases. Modern manufac-
turers have recognised the necessity of
adapting such wares to the simpler and
more constructive style of our day; they
have produced braids, tassels and fringes
after designs by well-known craftsmen. A
collection of historical trimmings from the
Middle Ages down to the nineteenth cen-
tury convinces one of the excellence of old
textiles, especially those of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. They are dis-
tinguished by lightness, richness of design
and interesting technique, which makes
but slight use of the wooden filling.
Modern trimmings have profited by the
teachings of the past, and at the same
time answer the demands of our day.
In their modest colouring and cleverly
adapted design they appear desirable com-
pletions of the furniture, and good substitutes
for friezes and borders. Objections will certainly
be made: by friends of stone or wooden wall
ornaments, but these woven or plaited additions
are of great solidity, and can improve a plain
style as well as enhance elegance. The different
rooms offer welcome object lessons. Professor
Bruno Paul, the manysided craftsman, upholds
his reputation for distinguished and solid taste
by a room in grey velvet with trimmings in
green and black, and by a fine choice of single
articles. Professor Franz Seeck has designed
a very neat and bright bedroom in sand-colour,
with wall-borderings of olive satin set in narrow
braids of black with silver and gold. The sofa
recess, after the design of the architect Paul
Thiersch and Fraulein Feldkircher, with its
intense notes of ochre and blue, is intended to
carry a strong colour accent into an interior of
reserved tenor. Director Dr. Jessen and superior
craftsmen like Professor Schulze-Naumburg, the
Berlin Municipal Weaving School, some emi-
nent architects and technical teachers, as well as
various first-class manufacturers, have co-oper-
ated to create this original and useful exhibition.
The Berlin Joiners’ Guild has been holding in
the extensive buildings of the Zoological Garden
an exhibition of interior decoration and Berlin
wood fabrics, which is proving one of the strongest
attractions of this summer season. The valuation
of our artisans has been somewhat neglected by
RECEPTION ROOM DESIGNED BY PROF. BRUNO PAUL
[Exhibition of Furniture Trunmings, Berlin)
3T3