Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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yre, Jr., of Philadel-phia, was called upon by Mr. Deacon to design his Tuxedohouse for him the creative fancy of the architect foundmuch to inspire him in this beautiful land. But he certainlygained nothing from the most suggestive of his neighbors, themselves. If, perchance, he adds, as he has done timeand time again, a note of carved ornament, it is a bit ofsculpture, charming in itself, a real note in the whole fabric,and yet occupying a subordinate position. In other words,the very simplest of Mr. Eyres houses have a charm dueto their inherent simplicity. It is architecture of a very highorder, the supreme test of the architect who lovingly weldshis rude building materials into a resultant that wins ad-miration through the sheer ability displayed in their use. These qualities are admirably brought out and verybeautifully illustrated in Mr. Deacons house. It would bedifficult to imagine a building more completely devoid ofthe extraneous additions with which most architects are ac-
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The Quiet Entrance Front is a Remarkable Study in Irregularity and Variety for Mr. Eyre designed a thoroughly individual house, admir-ably adapted to the hill-side site on which it is built, and ascompletely characteristic of its designer as it is individual inits design and captivating in the quiet simplicity of its parts.I doubt if we have any architect who gets as much out ofbuildings as buildings as Mr. Eyre does. Thoroughly aliveas he is to the artistic possibilities and realities of the relatedarts of painting and sculpture, he nevertheless believes—as his numerous buildings amply testify—that in seeking forarchitectural grace in buildings the building as a building—in its structural parts—must be graceful and beautiful.Hence his houses are studied with consummate art, his plainwalls, his simple outlines, his spacing of voids and solidsare conceived with a penetrating skill and yield a charm in customed to obtain their results. It is a long, low house, ashas been intimat

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