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Villa Karma, Montreux, Switzerland (1903-1912)*

Artist/Designer: Adolf Loos, Hugo Ehrlich

Project Location:  Switzerland

Figure 1: Building Section Villa Karma ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )
Figure 2: Entry Hall
Note: The Entry Hall, Veranda, Dining room and Black Bathroom are exclusively Ehrlich's design.
 ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )
Figure 3: Entry Hall Pt. II
Note: The Entry Hall, Veranda, Dining room and Black Bathroom are exclusively Ehrlich's design.
 ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )
Figure 4: Upper Entry Hall
 ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )
Figure 5: Library pt. I ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )
Figure 6: Library pt. II ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )
Figure 7: Library pt. III ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )
Figure 8: Bathroom
Entry Hall
Note: The Entry Hall, Veranda, Dining room and Black Bathroom are exclusively Ehrlich's design.
For more details, please see original scientific paper Hugo Ehrlich and Villa Karma:
https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/460032 ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )
Figure 9: Interior hallway ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )
Figure 10: Interior ( Source | Accessed : September 15, 2016 )

Style/Period(s):
Modern

Primary Material(s):
Stone, Wood

Function(s):
Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

Habitatio, Department of Residential Building Design, Budapest University of Technology | Accessed : July 16, 2024
Hugo Ehrlich and Villa Karma | Accessed : July 13, 2024
Online Architecure Database Villa Karma Post | Accessed : February 27, 2020
Website on Villa Karma | Accessed : February 27, 2020
Website on Adolf Loos | Accessed : February 27, 2020
Wikipedia Post Hugo Ehrlich | Accessed : July 13, 2024
https://jacquesgubler.com/download/karma.pdf

Significant Date(s):
20th Century, 1904, 1903, 1908, 1912

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:

Dina Vulin Ilekovic, Boris Ilekovic, "Hugo Ehrlich and Villa Karma", Prostor (2024): 2-15. https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/460032

Jacques Gubler, "On the photographic album of the Karma villa, letter to A. M. Vogt" in Medici-Mall, K. /"Sur l’album photographique de la villa Karma, lettre à A. M. Vogt" in Medici-Mall, K. (ed.); Five points in the history of architecture (/ Fünf Punkte in der Architekturgeschichte (Basel etc.: Birkhäuser), 1985: 214-229. https://jacquesgubler.com/download/karma.pdf

Joseph Masheck, Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture, (New York: I.B. Tauris), 2013.

Adolf Loos : Architecture 1903-1932. 2009. New York, New York: Monacelli Press, a division of Random House.

Darley, Gillian. "The Architecture of Adolf Loos." Crafts no. 78 (02, 1986): 56-57.

Abercrombie, Stanley. "Adolf Loos: Architecture 1903-1932." Interior Design 68, no. 2 (02, 1997): 108.

August Sarnitz, Adolf Loos, 1870-1933 : Architect, Cultural Critic, Dandy, (Cologne: Taschen), 2003.

Beatriz Colomina, "Sex, Lies and Decoration: Adolf Loos and Gustav Klimt," Thresholds 37, (2010): 70-81.

Building Address: Rue du Lac 171, 1815 Clarens, Montreux, Switzerland
Karma is situated by Lake Geneva, not in the city of Geneva, but in Montreux

Explanation - Karma is situated by the Lake Geneva, not in the city of Geneva, but in MontreuxSwitzerland

Supporting Designers/Staff: Adolf Loos

Significant Dates: 1903-1912 Designing and building period.
Loos was involved in the period 1903-1906, Ehrlich in the period 1908-1912

Associated Projects: Villa Müller, Looshaus, Café Museum

Tags: Adolf Loos, Hugo Ehrlich, Vienna, Modernism


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