Joseph M. Olbrich; das Warenhaus Tietz in Düsseldorf
A 1909 architectural monograph published in Berlin by E. Wasmuth, written by Max Creutz, on Joseph Maria Olbrich's Tietz department store in Düsseldorf, aimed at architects and students of modern building. The four plates are black-and-white photographs of the store's interiors and facade: a long rotated view of a lit hall with patterned ceiling vaults, a tall grid of windows framed by marble pilasters beneath a coffered glass dome, a rotated overhead view of a gallery with ornate floor panels, and a pair of stone entrance portals with sculpted figures and tall windows above. A designer might take the repeated geometric ornament, the stepped pilasters and the grand glazed-dome motif as models for early twentieth-century commercial architecture.
