Alexander Koch's Handbuch neuzeitlicher Wohnungskultur
Alexander Koch's Handbuch neuzeitlicher Wohnungskultur, published by A. Koch in Darmstadt in 1912, is a trade handbook of contemporary interior design compiled by Alexander Koch for architects, decorators and furniture makers. Its photographed rooms show bedrooms, dressing areas and sitting rooms furnished with built-in cupboards, geometric dark wood chairs, patterned wallpaper and white curtains, and a designer can take from them a restrained early twentieth-century vocabulary of rectilinear furniture, panelled walls and pared-back fittings.
