Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration
Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration is a German decorative arts periodical edited by Alex Koch and published in Darmstadt in 1897, aimed at designers, craftsmen and interior makers. The four pictures are black-and-white photographs: a dim, close-up painted or sculpted fragment, a rotated photograph of a shop or exhibition interior with framed panels and a globe, a dark wood sideboard with a cabinet and mirror back, and a pair of geometric metal candlesticks with a matching dish. A designer could take from them the restrained, angular Jugendstil forms and the dark-wood and pewter-like metalwork of turn-of-the-century German interiors.
