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Floorplan I made of my house, to submit with my Smallest Coolest apartment therapy entry.
My house is 1080 square feet. With that little space, I feel very lucky to have two full bathrooms!
The living area of this Alpine is incredibly roomy, and the kitchen with Country Island is completely upscale. The bathroom is also a key feature of this floorplan with a large 60-inch shower.
Well, Petrie finally bit the dust. She wasn't long for the world anyway, between the damage Catty did to the arms and several old stains that magically appeared to darken with age. But she wouldn't make it up the stairs in our new 4th-floor walkup. So it's time to invest in a sectional. We went shopping this weekend and saw a couple that grabbed us. Both are "apartment size" although they seem oddly large, as we've never had that much seating, but I guess seeing them in the context of these floorplans is a bit reassuring. Both are in slightly less cat-tempting fabrics, although poor Catty was really the scratcher-in-chief. Moses is more into scratching rugs, which is a-ok with us.
I think this also shows that our apartment could probably tolerate a larger dining table, which would be nice for dinner parties and such. Current table can squeeze in 5-6 uncomfortably (as if we even have that many chairs . . . we don't!).
This is how I envision my studio ending up. I hope I can get to this point soon!
Check the notes for details. :)
An old floor plan from when I bought the flat. The wall between the kitchen and living room is largely removed, so there is an open plan living / eating area with a little bit of storage as partition. There is also a large kitchen window, which isn't shown on the plan.
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Villa Tugendhat, a 1930 project by Mies van der Rohe, is characteristic of the architects early period and is recorded on the UNESCO List of World Cultural Heritage. Its restoration, completed in 2012, included the reconstruction of the interior and furnishing in its original form.
AMOSDESIGN worked on the restoration of old interior elements and on the research required for the manufacturing of replicas of the original furniture, fittings and finishes, where required.
Information on the Villa Tugendhat interior renovation
Furniture restoration in the Villa Tugendhat, originally designed by Mies van der Rohe, was aimed at restoring some of the remaining interior doors and reproduction of the original wooden built-in and freely positioned furniture, including metal furniture.
Regarding restoration and manufacturing of wooden furniture, we have explored all available resources such as period photographs, project documentation in museums (such as MOMA), literature and contacts with the families of the original owner and architect. We also visited numerous buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe in Europe and the USA.
From this comprehensive survey, we have prepared a rather extensive documentation which served as a basis for subsequent manufacturing. We had to make replicas of locks, hinges and parts for assembling of cupboards, tables or cabinets. We used only original materials such as wood panels, plywood and veneers. We have never used contemporary standard sheet materials, but rather historical connecting materials, including bolts and screws. We have adjusted details to our latest knowledge until the very last moments. We have used such rare materials as 100% zinc plate, solid steel, chrome, flexible tubular steel, brass, hand-tanned leather, parchment, opaque glass, black glass, crystal glass, rubber and leather straps, green marble, a number of textile covers, many wooden materials as well as European and tropical veneers.
As a final finish for maple, rosewood, pear, beech, oak, zebrawood and macassar veneers we used synthetic oil with alkyd resins, determined by research as the contemporary coating material. It was specially made for the renovation according to original recipes.
For the upholstery of sofas, beds and other interior parts we used only original materials such as jute, horsehair, African grass and traditional metal springs. All special works were carried out either by qualified renovators or under their supervision. The upholstery was often made from materials that are either unusual or no more used. We also found out that the professions needed for the realization of the interior are no more available.
It was necessary to equip the villa with metal replicas of the original furniture that had to be made individually.
Returning of the round macassar dining wall to the villa turned out to be crucial. The wall disappeared from the building in 1940 and was considered to be completely lost. Art historian Miroslav Ambroz announced the discovery of the wall in a busy university canteen in Brno in 2010, where it served as a wall cladding for 70 years. The panels were removed in 2011, restored, new sections were added and the wall was returned to the villa. This is one of the most interesting stories of the restoration. Thousands of people have watched the panels for years while nobody realized the context. The returning of the wall to its original place was an emotional experience even for the TUGENDHAT family.
Metal furniture in the Villa Tugendhat by Mies van der Rohe
Renovated metal furniture in the original 1930s versions is now placed in the villa. Such furniture is not available on the market anymore.
Given the fact that many chairs and tables were created in the year when the villa was built or designed specifically for the villa, many were prototypes modified for various reasons in the years before World War II. The reasons were usually structural and practical (lack of experience with new designs). The furniture had not been tested and it was thus impossible to determine its real-life properties and durability in advance.
After World War II, the simplifications and modifications continued. Technological, material, dimensional and assembly modifications meant that many products changed substantially compared to their 1930 versions. KNOLL USA began to produce the furniture in the 1950s and subsequent decades using completely new drawings supplied by the Mies van der Rohe studio and their own designs, using for example new, non-metric cross-sections for steel. New developments and changes are still taking place.
Some metal furniture in the villa was not even designed by Mies or he did not design it by himself. For example, the MR chairs were made, with the family and the co-author Lilly Reich´s consent, by TECTA, while the serving trolley was originally made by Thonet (discontinued a long time ago). The influence of the assistant designer Sergio Ruegenberg on the subsequent appearance of the furniture has not yet been significantly determined.
Entirely new manufacturing drawings for the existing original chairs were prepared for the villa restoration, with references to Mies’ original documentation, and the procedure was approved by the contracting authority, designers and THICOM.
A significant part of the original metal furniture (Barcelona, ottoman, Brno flat chair, Dessau table, chaise lounge, table MR) is owned by the Brno Municipal Museum, the Tugendhat family and the Mies family.
This is where we searched for relevant information. The new museum replicas are clearly distinguishable from contemporary production. Existing pieces were studied in the USA, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic – these were basically all existing or related pieces of furniture from the villa. The furniture was physically measured, drawn, original general drawings were traced and the furniture was X-rayed thoroughly. These were truly detailed 1:1 drawings, while the detailed research materials and unique comparative drawings compared the current and the original production of metal furniture.
As a result, the furniture in the villa is not a poor copy of the contemporary furniture by Mies van der Rohe, but rather furniture in its original appearance, and we could even say, with a slight exaggeration, that these replicas are the only existing original furniture. And like the Barcelona chair, many are museum replicas of chairs owned by the same entity that operates the Villa Tugendhat.
The result of the Tugendhat Villa restoration is a condition of the interior which is as close as possible to its 1930 appearance, while the attention to detail is unique among renovations of the 20th century architecture. The visitors can thus travel back in time to 1930 when the villa was completed.