- Edgar-Johan Kuusik
Edgar-Johan Kuusik (
february 22 ,1888 inValgjärve ,Estonia -august 3 ,1974 inTallinn ,Estonia ) was an Estonian architect (mostly freelance) and furniture and interior designer. His 1920s style can be described as a mix ofbaroque , traditional art andexpressionism , which was characteristic to almost all architects of the young Republic ofEstonia at that time. This interesting mix of styles started to fade at the end of the decade when functionalism took over, as can be seen in Kuusik's best-known work - Kunstihoone (the Art building) in Tallinn (1934, withAnton Soans ), which was unfortunately ruined in the 1960s when one storey was added. In the end of 1930s, more historicistic details appeared in Kuusik's work. In 1922 he drew the plans for the idyllic Tamme garden city inTartu . Kuusik has also designed the interiors and furniture for several historic and institutional buildings. [citebook|title=Art of the Baltics|author= Allan Rosenfeld, Norton C. Dodge|year= 2001|url= http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0813530423&id=r73fmcC5itkC&pg=RA5-PA369&lpg=RA5-PA369&ots=MqvVMUiv_-&dq=%22Edgar-Johan+Kuusik%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=pwTcTl8iCETIdvocIwyt7q3YiQU|id=ISBN 0813530423]Gallery
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