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84 GÄSTEHAUS HERIOT BY ATELIER SINGER DICKER Year 1934 Status Demolished Material Paper Glue 3D Print Scale 1:50 Model maker Barbara Gruber The architecture studio Singer Dicker designed a guest house for the Countess Heriot in the garden of her residence at Rustenschacherallee in the 2nd of Vienna. The guest house was placed on top of an old, one storey high building from the mid 19th century. The new building, a steel frame construction, was designed with overhanging terraces on the first floor. The original building became the base for the new house, consisting of a garage, a flat for the chauffeur, a room for a servant and cages for the pets of the Countess Heriot: a leopard, a parrot and some dogs. The new building was connected to the basement with a glass lift. A spiral staircase encircled the lift. The guest house offered two big rooms, both for living and for sleeping, two bathrooms, two cloakrooms, two rooms for servants and some rooms for house work. Each big room was equipped with a double bed that could be hidden under a platform by a turning mechanism. On top of the platform was a lounge. The big rooms were connected to the terrace by a winter garden and a large glazed folding door. The architecture studio Friedl Dicker designed all furniture, the light fixtures and even the door handles. A garden terrace was located on top of the building. From 1938 onwards, the building was abandoned and then eventually demolished in 1962.1 1 Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien (Ed.) (1988): Franz Singer, Friedl Dicker: 2x Bauhaus in Wien. Wien: Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien. 84-87.