Photograph of ground and first floor plans and a section for Tugendhat House, Brno, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)

People:

Williams & Meyer Co. (photographic studio)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (interior designer)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (furniture designer)
Fritz Tugendhat (client)
Grete Tugendhat (client)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (architect)

Title:

Photograph of ground and first floor plans and a section for Tugendhat House, Brno, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)

Date:

negative exposed between 1938 and 1969

Description:

- Among the inscriptions on the verso of this print is the negative number 3853-B.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design development drawing

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

sheet: 25.5 x 20.8 cm

Reference number:

DR1994:0014:008

Drawing Type:

line drawings
mechanical drawings (tool-aided drawings)

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)
ground plan
section

Point of View:

interior views
plan views

Inscription:

stamped - by an unknown hand, in black ink, on the print, verso, u.r.: "FROM THE STUDIOS OF / WILLIAMS & MEYER CO. / 14 N. MICHIGAN - RA[N]DOLPH 1921 / CHICAGO, ILLINOIS / NEG. # 3853-B" [with negative number in graphite, sideways] stamped - by an unknown hand, in black ink, on the print, verso, l.l.: "MIES VAN DER ROHE / ARCHITECT A.I.A. / 37 S. WABASH AVE. / CHICAGO 3, ILL." labelled, imprinted and dated - by an unknown hand, in black typeface, on a label affixed to the print, verso, l.c.: "House Tugendhat / 1) Floor Plan / Brno-Czechoslovakia / 1930"

Subject:

architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Gift of Edward Austin Duckett

Drawing © Estate of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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