A ‘Turkish Salon’ in the Vienna Hofburg

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In the 1880s a ‘Gobelin Salon’ in the Vienna Hofburg was redecorated and furnished for the crown prince according to his instructions and taste: he desired a gentleman’s study in the oriental style. A detailed description of the furnishing and décor of the ‘Turkish Salon’ as it came to be known appeared in the Allgemeine Illustrierte Zeitung in 1886.

Within the apartments of the Hofburg, this room acquired a special status, as it represented the personal taste of the crown prince. In the inventory of his estate which contains 151 separate objects, the furnishings of the ‘Turkish Room’ are meticulously listed: rugs, divans, armchairs, Turkish stools and personal mementoes such as weapons. The model for this kind of interior decoration was the ‘oriental cabinets’ found in patrician houses in the second half of the nineteenth century which served as smoking rooms or studies and reflected the contemporary fascination with the Orient. The Vienna World Exhibition of 1873 featured a ‘Tunisian Room’ that was furnished with similar furniture and accessories to those of the Turkish Room in the Hofburg. The crown prince had become acquainted with oriental culture on a journey to the Orient in 1881 which took him to Cairo, Upper Egypt, the Suez Canal and Jerusalem. The impressions he brought back from this journey found expression in the décor of this room.

However, the other members of the family avoided new styles in interior decoration – the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand is said to have stated: ‘The “Maria-Theresian style” is my favourite’.

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Inventory of the Viennese holdings of the estate of Crown Prince Rudolf, ‘Turkish Room’

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Barta-Fliedl, Ilsebill/Parenzan, Peter (Hrsg.): Lust und Last des Erbens. Die Sammlungen der Bundesmobilienverwaltung Wien, Wien 1993; Ottillinger, Eva B./Hanzl, Lieselotte: Kaiserliche Interieurs. Die Wohnkultur des Wiener Hofes im 19. Jahrhundert und die Wiener Kunstgewerbereform, Wien/Köln/Weimar 1997 (Museen des Mobiliendepots 3), 132–134;

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