Give your home a refresh, new lighting fixtures and all. Decorating ideas from the February 1914 issue of the magazine “Moderne Bauformen”which was published in Stuttgart Germany by Julius Hoffmann.

PROFESSOR EDMUND KÖRNER, ESSEN-DARMSTADT. Das Haus Ev. Waldhausen zu Essen, Ruhr. – Das Garrderobezimmer der Dame. Page 16, Image 37. Taken from the February 1914 issue of Moderne Bauformen magazine, published in Stuttgart, Germany by Julius Hoffmann. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/moderne-bauformen-1914-heft-2/page/n36/mode/1up
PROFESSOR EDMUND KÖRNER, ESSEN-DARMSTADT. Das Haus Ev. Waldhausen zu Essen, Ruhr. – Das Vestibül in hellem Ahornholz. Image 38. Taken from the February 1914 issue of Moderne Bauformen magazine, published in Stuttgart, Germany by Julius Hoffmann. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/moderne-bauformen-1914-heft-2/page/n37/mode/1up

PROFESSOR EDMUND KÖRNER, ESSEN-DARMSTADT. Das Haus Ev. Waldhausen zu Essen, Ruhr. – Blick durch die Halle. Page 76, Image 40. Taken from the February 1914 issue of Moderne Bauformen magazine, published in Stuttgart, Germany by Julius Hoffmann. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/moderne-bauformen-1914-heft-2/page/n40/mode/1up


PROFESSOR EDMUND KÖRNER, ESSEN-DARMSTADT. Das Haus Ev. Waldhausen zu Essen, Ruhr. – Das Empfangszimmer. Page 78, Image 44. Taken from the February 1914 issue of Moderne Bauformen magazine, published in Stuttgart, Germany by Julius Hoffmann. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/moderne-bauformen-1914-heft-2/page/78/mode/1up
PROFESSOR EDMUND KÖRNER, ESSEN-DARMSTADT. Das Haus E. v. Waldhausen zu Essen, Ruhr. – Das Billiardzimmer in Kastanienholz mit rehfarbenen Möbelbezügen; Kamin in gelbrotem Marmor mit eingelegten plastidhen Wappen. Page 79, Image 47. Taken from the February 1914 issue of Moderne Bauformen magazine, published in Stuttgart, Germany by Julius Hoffmann. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/moderne-bauformen-1914-heft-2/page/n46/mode/1up
PROFESSOR EDMUND KÖRNER, ESSEN-DARMSTADT. Das Haus E. v. Waldhausen zu Essen, Ruhr. – Oben: Blitz in die Küche. Unten: Aus der Damengarderobe im Untergeschob. Image 81. Taken from the February 1914 issue of Moderne Bauformen magazine, published in Stuttgart, Germany by Julius Hoffmann. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/moderne-bauformen-1914-heft-2/page/81/mode/1up
PROFESSOR EDMUND KÖRNER, ESSEN-DARMSTADT. Das Haus E. v. Waldhausen zu Essen, Ruhr. – Das Speisezimmer. Image 48. Taken from the February 1914 issue of Moderne Bauformen magazine, published in Stuttgart, Germany by Julius Hoffmann. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/moderne-bauformen-1914-heft-2/page/n48/mode/1up
PROFESSOR EDMUND KÖRNER, ESSEN-DARMSTADT. Das Haus E. v. Waldhausen zu Essen, Ruhr. – Das Arbeitszimmer. Image 53. Taken from the February 1914 issue of Moderne Bauformen magazine, published in Stuttgart, Germany by Julius Hoffmann. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/moderne-bauformen-1914-heft-2/page/n52/mode/1up

All of these images (and more that I didn’t pick up) are of Edmund Körner’s home. From what I am finding with Google, he was an architect and interior decorator who had trained in Görlitz, Dresden and Berlin. No wonder a Stuttgart based architectural magazine did an article about his new home with its very fashionable decor including a very fashionable (maybe) meat grinder clamped to the table in his kitchen. Especially enjoying his lighting concepts, especially the one over his billiards table.

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