DOI issue:
Nr. 210 (September 1910)
DOI article:Khnopff, Fernand: The Brussels exhibition, [1]: some furnished interiors
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20970#0336
The Brussels Exhibition
DINING ROOM FOR A CLUB DESIGNED BY PROF. ALBIN MULLER; EXECUTED BY TH. ENCKE, MAGDEBURG
prise every variety of apartment, except domestic
offices, to be found in the houses of the well-to-do.
There is, for instance, a study or smoking-room,
for the master of the house, a drawing-room or
“ Gesellschafts-salon,” a lady’s boudoir, a breakfast-
room, a dining-room, a bedroom and a night
nursery, a bath-room with sumptuous appoint-
ments and fittings of diverse kinds, a dressing-
room communicating with a bath-room, besides
ante-chambers and lobbies.
These, however, are not the only examples of
interior furnishing which are offered to the visitor
in this hall. There are, in addition, a small
number of domestic interiors, more or less akin
in general style to the others, but with a less
expensive equipment, these including a couple of
dining-rooms, one by Karl Bertsch, and the other
by Prof. Riemerschmid, both of Munich, and a
ladies’ room by the latter. Further, we find a
suite of four rooms for a club, including the
dining room by Prof. Albin Muller, of which
an illustration is given above; three rooms de-
signed for a sanatorium—an operating room, a
waiting-room, and a consultation room. And
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then, finally, there are various rooms intended
for use as offices of sundry kinds, such as a small
hall for the Rathaus at Karlsruhe, by Prof. Hoff-
acker, Director of the School for Applied Art in
that city; a “Trauzimmer” for marriage cere-
monies ; a private office for the President of the
German Committee at the Exhibition; a press
room; a reading-room for illustrated periodicals, a
series of rooms designated as those of a “ Kunst-
freund” or art-patron, in which is displayed a
choice collection of works of art—paintings, sculp-
ture, drawings, &c. — by some of the leading
German artists of the modern school.
At first sight, if the visitor be a cultured man ot
the Latin race, all this manifestation of German
decoration and furnishing will perhaps clash with
his taste and habits; but the determined energy
which the whole reveals, and the effort of realisa-
tion, are such that the feeling of disturbance he
may have experienced at first will quickly give
place to one of admiration and astonishment: as
one gets accustomed to a thing one understands it
better, and ends by taking account of the necessity
of it all, as one might say.
DINING ROOM FOR A CLUB DESIGNED BY PROF. ALBIN MULLER; EXECUTED BY TH. ENCKE, MAGDEBURG
prise every variety of apartment, except domestic
offices, to be found in the houses of the well-to-do.
There is, for instance, a study or smoking-room,
for the master of the house, a drawing-room or
“ Gesellschafts-salon,” a lady’s boudoir, a breakfast-
room, a dining-room, a bedroom and a night
nursery, a bath-room with sumptuous appoint-
ments and fittings of diverse kinds, a dressing-
room communicating with a bath-room, besides
ante-chambers and lobbies.
These, however, are not the only examples of
interior furnishing which are offered to the visitor
in this hall. There are, in addition, a small
number of domestic interiors, more or less akin
in general style to the others, but with a less
expensive equipment, these including a couple of
dining-rooms, one by Karl Bertsch, and the other
by Prof. Riemerschmid, both of Munich, and a
ladies’ room by the latter. Further, we find a
suite of four rooms for a club, including the
dining room by Prof. Albin Muller, of which
an illustration is given above; three rooms de-
signed for a sanatorium—an operating room, a
waiting-room, and a consultation room. And
312
then, finally, there are various rooms intended
for use as offices of sundry kinds, such as a small
hall for the Rathaus at Karlsruhe, by Prof. Hoff-
acker, Director of the School for Applied Art in
that city; a “Trauzimmer” for marriage cere-
monies ; a private office for the President of the
German Committee at the Exhibition; a press
room; a reading-room for illustrated periodicals, a
series of rooms designated as those of a “ Kunst-
freund” or art-patron, in which is displayed a
choice collection of works of art—paintings, sculp-
ture, drawings, &c. — by some of the leading
German artists of the modern school.
At first sight, if the visitor be a cultured man ot
the Latin race, all this manifestation of German
decoration and furnishing will perhaps clash with
his taste and habits; but the determined energy
which the whole reveals, and the effort of realisa-
tion, are such that the feeling of disturbance he
may have experienced at first will quickly give
place to one of admiration and astonishment: as
one gets accustomed to a thing one understands it
better, and ends by taking account of the necessity
of it all, as one might say.