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76 HALLE IM HAUPTHAUS HERIOT BY ATELIER SINGER DICKER Year 1933 Status Project Material Paper Foamboard Glue Scale 1:25 Model maker Barbara Gruber Atelier Singer Dicker designed the entrance hall of the main house of the countess Heriot in 1933, after which they designed and built a guesthouse in the garden of the house Heriot the following year.1 The main house was located in the 2nd district of Vienna and was close to the Prater, a public amusement park. The house had been converted by the Viennese architect Fritz Reichl some years earlier.2 Atelier Singer Dicker’s project was never built, but a perspective drawing from 1933 shows a two storey high entrance hall with an L-shaped staircase leading to the gallery on the upper floor. The ground floor entrance hall is furnished with a billiard table, a group of lounge chairs and a coffee table, with a smaller group of lounge chairs and coffee table in the gallery. A metal sculpture from 1921 by the artist Anna Selbdritt adorns the midpoint landing of the staircase. The entrance hall is painted and decorated in red, orange and brown colours and fabrics.3 1 Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien (Ed.) (1988): Franz Singer, Friedl Dicker: 2x Bauhaus in Wien. Wien: Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien. 52. 2 Boeckl, Matthias (Ed.) (1995): Visionäre & Vertriebene: Österreichische Spuren in der modernen amerikanischen Architektur. Berlin: Ernst & Sohn. 338. 3 Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien (Ed.) (1988): Franz Singer, Friedl Dicker: 2x Bauhaus in Wien. Wien: Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien. 52.