The Modern Interior

daughter’s bedroom, concentric circles were inlaid into the wooden head

and foot of the bed. They were also applied to the back of a side chair and

to the mirror of the dressing table, while a suspended lamp, the bed-linen

and the curtains also featured the same motif. Little side tables were built

42 into the bed-head. In the music room a built-in sofa was fitted against

The daughter’s bedroom in Peter Behrens’s House in Darmstadt, designed by Peter

Behrens, 1901 , illustrated inThe Studio, 1901.