Studio: international art (54.1912)

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DESIGNED BY K. KLAUS

DESIGNED BY K. KLAUS

"SERAPIS" FAIENCE PLATES

contours are finely marked sometimes with delicate
threads of gold or silver or some line of colour
which throws the ornament into relief. New
experiments are being made in faience as in other
branches of ceramics, and further developments
may be shortly expected.

Frau Harlfinger-Zakucka is already known to
readers of The Studio as a designer and maker of
artistic toys. But she is a many-sided woman as
her work at large will show. Of late she has
devoted her talent to domestic decoration and has
been particularly successful in this branch of art.

Talk

DESIGNED BY K. KLAUS AND F. STAUDIGL

DESIGNED BY K. KLAUS

EXECUTED BY ERNST WAHLISS

She was the first woman here in Vienna who
turned her attention to the general furnishing and
decoration of homes. That she is appreciated is
proved by the number of commissions which have
come to her. One of these was in connection with a
charming house here in Vienna, the hall of which
had to be adapted to the ancient furniture already
in possession, but she solved the problem very
satisfactorily. So too in the case of the drawing-
room ; here the old large windows were removed
and replaced by long narrow ones placed high in
the walls so as to render the light soft and sub-
dued. The billiard-room illustrated on p. 68

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