DOI Heft:
No. 236 (November 1912)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0151
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
house is a red-brick structure, the roof being covered
with Westmorland slates, while Portland stone is
used for the principal windows, which are glazed
with leaded lights. The rooms are commodious,
the largest of them, the drawing-room, being over
twenty feet in both dimensions. A special feature
has been made of the garden. Messrs. John
Belcher, R.A., and J. J. Joass of Clifford Street,
London, were the architects of this house.
In planning the house at Harpenden in Hertford-
shire, shown on p. 128, the idea of the architect, Mr.
J. E. Dixon-Spain, was to produce an economically
planned residence suitable for a gentleman of
moderate means and one which should avoid the
banal characteristics of the usual type of detached
villa—that is, to ensure as much privacy as possible
in the rooms occupied by the family and especially to
prevent the intrusion of kitchen odours. Brindled
stock bricks with red dress-
ings for the external walls
and red hand-made tiles
for the roofs are the
materials specified in this
case. The dining-room
and drawing-room, which
are so arranged as to be
converted into one large
room if required, are pro-
vided with French case-
ments opening on to the
garden on the south side
of the house. The floor
above contains five bed-
rooms, a bathroom, and
various offices.
Herr Oskar Kaufmann
of Berlin, of whose work
as a designer of interiors
we give some illustrations,
will be remembered by
many readers of The
Studio as the architect of
the Hebbel Theatre in
Berlin, which was the sub-
ject of an illustrated article
published by us in May
1908. That well-thought-
out and monumental struc-
ture established his repu-
tation as an architect, and
since then he has under-
taken other commissions
of a kindred character.
One of them is for a
large theatre at Bremen, which has just been com-
pleted, while a large Volkstheater and a “ Kinema ”
are in course of erection in Berlin from his de-
signs. Herr Kaufmann is a true modernist and
though he is enamoured of Barock and Bieder-
meyer, his solutions are always individual. He
has a great ambition for planning on a big scale,
and this ambition is now being gratified by a scheme
for an entire “ Platz ” with large corner buildings
surrounding the future “ Volkstheater.” But in
spite of these monumental aspirations, he is far
from disdaining such work as the arrangement
of domestic interiors ; on the contrary, he takes
keen pleasure in solving the varied problems
these present. In this branch of his work a
penchant for grandeur is discernible. In particular
he has a great love for the finer varieties of wood
and employs them with good judgment. In the
A CORNER OF A NURSERY DESIGNED BY OSKAR KAUFMANN, ARCHITECT
I29
house is a red-brick structure, the roof being covered
with Westmorland slates, while Portland stone is
used for the principal windows, which are glazed
with leaded lights. The rooms are commodious,
the largest of them, the drawing-room, being over
twenty feet in both dimensions. A special feature
has been made of the garden. Messrs. John
Belcher, R.A., and J. J. Joass of Clifford Street,
London, were the architects of this house.
In planning the house at Harpenden in Hertford-
shire, shown on p. 128, the idea of the architect, Mr.
J. E. Dixon-Spain, was to produce an economically
planned residence suitable for a gentleman of
moderate means and one which should avoid the
banal characteristics of the usual type of detached
villa—that is, to ensure as much privacy as possible
in the rooms occupied by the family and especially to
prevent the intrusion of kitchen odours. Brindled
stock bricks with red dress-
ings for the external walls
and red hand-made tiles
for the roofs are the
materials specified in this
case. The dining-room
and drawing-room, which
are so arranged as to be
converted into one large
room if required, are pro-
vided with French case-
ments opening on to the
garden on the south side
of the house. The floor
above contains five bed-
rooms, a bathroom, and
various offices.
Herr Oskar Kaufmann
of Berlin, of whose work
as a designer of interiors
we give some illustrations,
will be remembered by
many readers of The
Studio as the architect of
the Hebbel Theatre in
Berlin, which was the sub-
ject of an illustrated article
published by us in May
1908. That well-thought-
out and monumental struc-
ture established his repu-
tation as an architect, and
since then he has under-
taken other commissions
of a kindred character.
One of them is for a
large theatre at Bremen, which has just been com-
pleted, while a large Volkstheater and a “ Kinema ”
are in course of erection in Berlin from his de-
signs. Herr Kaufmann is a true modernist and
though he is enamoured of Barock and Bieder-
meyer, his solutions are always individual. He
has a great ambition for planning on a big scale,
and this ambition is now being gratified by a scheme
for an entire “ Platz ” with large corner buildings
surrounding the future “ Volkstheater.” But in
spite of these monumental aspirations, he is far
from disdaining such work as the arrangement
of domestic interiors ; on the contrary, he takes
keen pleasure in solving the varied problems
these present. In this branch of his work a
penchant for grandeur is discernible. In particular
he has a great love for the finer varieties of wood
and employs them with good judgment. In the
A CORNER OF A NURSERY DESIGNED BY OSKAR KAUFMANN, ARCHITECT
I29