Name

Türkisches Wohnhaus, Vienna world's fair

Address
Prater
Vienna
Geographical Hierarchy
Coordinates (WGS 84)
Author and Date of Entry
Franziska Niemand 2024
Information about the Building

The Turkish dwelling (Türkisches Wohnhaus) was one of the five pavilions that represented the Ottoman Empire at the Weltausstellung in Vienna in 1873. It was planned by the architect and decorator Pietro Montani, and built by workers, who came from the Ottoman Empire to Vienna in 1872. The house with its eleven chambers included a harem, a selamlık, a kitchen, a bath covered in marble and a heating chamber. While its appearance was simple from the outside, the interior was opulently decorated with its ceilings of elaborate design, wooden furniture with mother-of-pearl inlays, tapestry, curtains in many colours and gold, as well as stucco and glass windows (Sweny, 1874, p. 304).

Literature

Sax, C. (1873). Türkei. Gruppe XIV, Section 4. (General-Direction der Weltausstellung 1873 (Ed.), Officieller Ausstellungs-Bericht, Carl T. Richter), Druck und Verlag der k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei.

Sweny, H. W. (1874). Buildings in the Parc. In Reports on the Vienna Universal Exhibition of 1873. Part III. pp. 293–317. George E. Eyre And William Spottiswoode.

Ersoy, A. (2015). Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary. Reconfiguring the Architectural Past in a Modernizing Empire. Ashgate.

Niemand, F. (2021). "Orientalische" und orientalisierende Interieurs auf der Wiener Weltausstellung 1873 im Spiegel der Text- und Bildquellen. In M. Hartmuth, & J. Rüdiger (Eds.), Gezimmertes Morgenland. Orientalische und orientalisierende Holzinterieurs in Mitteleuropa im späten 19. Jahrhundert. Phänomenalität, Materialität, Historizität (pp. 79–96). Böhlau Verlag.