Schminke House

In 1930, Hans Scharoun designed the Schminke House for Fritz Schminke, the owner of a noodle factory in Löbau, Saxony, Germany. Schminke had asked for a modern house for his family of six, with room for occasional guests. The resulting design is regarded as Scharoun's most important work of the period before the Second World War and is comparable in significance to Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Mies van der Rohe's Tugendhat House. The Schminke House is a modernist masterpiece whose features are clean lines, simple forms and an emphasis on natural light and open spaces. The house is now open to the public as a museum, allowing visitors to experience Scharoun's design genius at first hand.