Studio: international art (57.1913)

A Viennese Exhibition of Arts and Crafts

were a coffee-house and a
“ one-family ” villa, designed
by architect Robert Orley
and built on the new patented
system, “ Katona.” The
house was completely fur-
nished, everything being of
the finest workmanship and
designed by architect R.
Orley, at the cost of 2000
kronen, that is, about ^84,
the cost of the villa without
the ground being ^375.

Another attraction in the
garden was the Parkhaus
designed by architect Ernst
Lichtblau. Here again ex-
cellent taste combined with
good workmanship was every-
where perceptible, both as to

themselves are taking more and more interest
in it.

But in spite of all these interests the present
exhibition would have been an impossibility had
not the Ministry of Public Works (Arbeitsminis-
terium) again given material help to make it possible;
and this is a proof of the great interest taken in the
future of the Austrian arts and crafts. It is sig-
nificant, too, that for the first time the Municipal
Authorities of Vienna also did much towards making
the exhibition a success, for not only did the com-
mune lay out the garden which, together with the per-
gola, treillage, etc., was designed by architect Cesar
Poppovits, but they also have undertaken to keep
it in order, for the garden is to remain permanent.
When to this is added the fact that Westermann
and Co. have presented the beautiful terrace, with
the steps leading to the garden and the colonnades,
also designed by Cesar Poppovits, to the museum,
another proof is given of the growing interest taken
in these exhibitions. The garden is very beautiful,
and is ornamented with numerous attractive garden
seats in white-lacquered wood, designed by architect
Josef Zotti and executed by the Prag-Rudniker
Korbwarenfabrication. Two other features of it
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CABINET (SHOWN OI>EN AND CLOSED) OF PALISANDER
AND CEDAR WOOD RICHLY INLAID WITH OTHER
WOODS. DESIGNED BY OTTO PRUTSCHER, EXECUTED
BY K. FRANTZ