DOI Heft:
No. 255 (July 1914)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0141
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
This same colour is used for the backgrounds of the visible pipes and the ugly apparatus supplying the
relief medallions over the arches of the veranda— place of stoves in the other system. Fireplaces,
which are by Prof. Hermann Schubert — repre- however, are also provided, though rather for senti-
senting naked youths with the emblems of the mental reasons than to supply an actual necessity,
pleasures of a villeggiatura-life, music, sport, wine but where they have been fixed they have been
<xx. The strength of the design of the fagade lies arranged for wood fires only.
in the exquisiteness of its proportions, and the While German characteristics are embodied in
careful delicacy of the moulding of its single parts, the villa just described, those which are revealed in
Dr. Schubert is exceptionally gifted in this direction, the excellent drawing reproduced on p. 122 belong
Just as a Meunier or a Rodin infuses so much to a markedly different type of domestic architec-
breadth and power in a small bronze that the
reproduction of it looks like the reproduction of
a life-size statue, so Dr. Schubert casts his compara-
tively small houses in a large, quasi-monumental
mould. This appears plainly even in the accom-
panying view : when seen from the other side of
the river, the house looks like a small chateau—but
it only contains six rooms (the largest but twenty-five
feet long), besides the offices &c. The staircase
hall is decorated by a large stained glass window,
which Otto Fischer designed in 1899, and which was
reproduced in The Studio in the following year
The house is heated by a fresh-air central heating
plant, which apart from economical reasons is
advantageous for the fact that it does away with
This same colour is used for the backgrounds of the visible pipes and the ugly apparatus supplying the
relief medallions over the arches of the veranda— place of stoves in the other system. Fireplaces,
which are by Prof. Hermann Schubert — repre- however, are also provided, though rather for senti-
senting naked youths with the emblems of the mental reasons than to supply an actual necessity,
pleasures of a villeggiatura-life, music, sport, wine but where they have been fixed they have been
<xx. The strength of the design of the fagade lies arranged for wood fires only.
in the exquisiteness of its proportions, and the While German characteristics are embodied in
careful delicacy of the moulding of its single parts, the villa just described, those which are revealed in
Dr. Schubert is exceptionally gifted in this direction, the excellent drawing reproduced on p. 122 belong
Just as a Meunier or a Rodin infuses so much to a markedly different type of domestic architec-
breadth and power in a small bronze that the
reproduction of it looks like the reproduction of
a life-size statue, so Dr. Schubert casts his compara-
tively small houses in a large, quasi-monumental
mould. This appears plainly even in the accom-
panying view : when seen from the other side of
the river, the house looks like a small chateau—but
it only contains six rooms (the largest but twenty-five
feet long), besides the offices &c. The staircase
hall is decorated by a large stained glass window,
which Otto Fischer designed in 1899, and which was
reproduced in The Studio in the following year
The house is heated by a fresh-air central heating
plant, which apart from economical reasons is
advantageous for the fact that it does away with