| In 1906, Karl
Ernst Osthaus commissioned Henry van de Velde to design the family's new
home in Hohenhagen as an "integral work of art". The Hohenhof
was conceived as the crowning touch to a terraced slope for which the
Belgian architect drew up a development plan for a further 16 villas, none
of which were subsequently built. Hohenhof, whose ground plan looks like a
double hook, was ready for occupancy in 1908.
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| The building
material was traditional: blue-black stone from a nearby quarry
blends harmoniously with black Niedermendig basalt lava and bluish
Moselle slate, combined with white and green for the doors and
windows. Only the hillside eastern façade has axial symmetry whilst
the entrance and garden sides reflect the irregular spatial division
inside the house. |
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