Villa Karma
by LOOS, Adolf, Photo
The first house designed by Loos was the Villa Karma for the Swiss neurologist Theodor Beer in Clarens, Montreux. Here an existing dwelling was entirely enclosed in a new one, consisting of a four-storey stuccoed house of classical simplicity, with a flat roof and recessed attic storey (completed by Hugo Ehrlich).
Even Adolf Loos, the most audacious spirit in architecture, was a child of his time. Under the art that was to be rejected, he understood the art of ornament. Beauty and harmony nevertheless remained law. He deprived the ornament of its rights and replaced it with costly materials. At the end of the day, the concept of the Raumplan (the plan of volumes), which he developed, was also interior design.