In the years 1905 -1910, two sensational country houses were built in the picturesque landscape at Lake Molchow near Alt Ruppin in the Mark Brandenburg: the Molchow House by the Finnish architects Herman Gesellius and Eliel Saarinen and the Kosmack House by the German architect and co-founder of the German Werkbund Hermann Muthesius. The Molchow House was a unique synthesis of the arts in which the handwriting of the planners was evident down to the smallest details of the interior design. It also remained the only realized building project of the famous northern European building artists in Germany. With the Kosmack house, Muthesius was able to realize his reform-oriented plan of a modern home composed into the landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this publication, Teppo Jokinen provides the first comprehensive account of the eventful history of these two buildings, their inhabitants and their prominent guests, up to the demolition of the houses after the Second World War. The book contains partly previously unpublished photographic material on the buildings that have disappeared today and is based on the author’s extensive research work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1773,1774],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2207","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-architecture-urban-planning","product_cat-history-of-architecture","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n