DOI Heft:
No. 226 (January 1912)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0336
Studio-Talk
yards by eight, the length divided up into five
sections by as many windows along the right side.
An impression of luxury and importance has been
aimed at, without the aid of elaborate ornamenta-
tion. The woodwork is stained to the colour of
old oak, the doorway is of dark green marble, the
floor of grey marble with red veins in it.
STUDIO-TALK
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
ONDON.—The death of Professor Alphonse
Legros on December 8 at the age of 74
removed from the contemporary world of
art one of its most distinguished figures.
The Professor, who was head of the Slade School
for seventeen years, was one of the greatest etchers
that our time has produced, besides displaying
eminent qualities as painter and sculptor.
At the Baillie Gallery the New Society of Water-
Colour Painters held their fifth exhibition last
villa vogel, barenburg, erzgebirge month. It showed a distinct advance upon their last.
LOSSOW and kl'hke, architects . r
Especially to be remarked were Mr. T. Frederick
Catchpole's Breezy Day and Seascape, Mr. Gerald
as the ordinary basket grate in the ingle-nook. Ackerman's Corfe Castle, Mr. W. T. M. HaWks-
The building is entirely detached and self-con- worth>s j)^ Mr. T. Butler Stoney's Shaw House,
tained, and has a constant supply of hot water.
In drawing attention to some recent work of the
German architects, Messrs. Lossow and Kuhne,
we are not introducing new men to the notice of
the reader, for both Mr. Lossow and Mr. Kuhne
have upon several occasions been discussed in the
columns of The Studio. Since their union the
most important task which has fallen to their lot is the
new railway station at Leipzig, said to be the largest
and finest building of its kind in the world. The
villa illustrated on this page is located at Barenburg,
up in the woodland hills of the Erzgebirge, about
two hours by rail from Dresden. Practical con-
siderations shaped the plan in all its details; so,
for example, the extent and situation of the semi-
open verandah. It communicates with a living-
room on the same floor, so as to enable the
resident invalid to enjoy open air and sunlight
with the greatest possible convenience. The side
towards the forest, which is the side from which
the storm winds hail, is walled up. The gable
wall is covered with plain pine boards, untouched
by any paint, varnish, or protecting coat but well
seasoned by exposure to the sun. The illustration
on p. 313 shows the small end of a kind of ante-
corridor to an audience chamber. It is designed . „ TT, „- •
° a ROOM IN the ViLLA vogel, barenburg, erzgebirge
in the shape of a long-drawn hall, about twenty designed by lossow and kuhne, architects
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yards by eight, the length divided up into five
sections by as many windows along the right side.
An impression of luxury and importance has been
aimed at, without the aid of elaborate ornamenta-
tion. The woodwork is stained to the colour of
old oak, the doorway is of dark green marble, the
floor of grey marble with red veins in it.
STUDIO-TALK
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
ONDON.—The death of Professor Alphonse
Legros on December 8 at the age of 74
removed from the contemporary world of
art one of its most distinguished figures.
The Professor, who was head of the Slade School
for seventeen years, was one of the greatest etchers
that our time has produced, besides displaying
eminent qualities as painter and sculptor.
At the Baillie Gallery the New Society of Water-
Colour Painters held their fifth exhibition last
villa vogel, barenburg, erzgebirge month. It showed a distinct advance upon their last.
LOSSOW and kl'hke, architects . r
Especially to be remarked were Mr. T. Frederick
Catchpole's Breezy Day and Seascape, Mr. Gerald
as the ordinary basket grate in the ingle-nook. Ackerman's Corfe Castle, Mr. W. T. M. HaWks-
The building is entirely detached and self-con- worth>s j)^ Mr. T. Butler Stoney's Shaw House,
tained, and has a constant supply of hot water.
In drawing attention to some recent work of the
German architects, Messrs. Lossow and Kuhne,
we are not introducing new men to the notice of
the reader, for both Mr. Lossow and Mr. Kuhne
have upon several occasions been discussed in the
columns of The Studio. Since their union the
most important task which has fallen to their lot is the
new railway station at Leipzig, said to be the largest
and finest building of its kind in the world. The
villa illustrated on this page is located at Barenburg,
up in the woodland hills of the Erzgebirge, about
two hours by rail from Dresden. Practical con-
siderations shaped the plan in all its details; so,
for example, the extent and situation of the semi-
open verandah. It communicates with a living-
room on the same floor, so as to enable the
resident invalid to enjoy open air and sunlight
with the greatest possible convenience. The side
towards the forest, which is the side from which
the storm winds hail, is walled up. The gable
wall is covered with plain pine boards, untouched
by any paint, varnish, or protecting coat but well
seasoned by exposure to the sun. The illustration
on p. 313 shows the small end of a kind of ante-
corridor to an audience chamber. It is designed . „ TT, „- •
° a ROOM IN the ViLLA vogel, barenburg, erzgebirge
in the shape of a long-drawn hall, about twenty designed by lossow and kuhne, architects
3X4