Identifier: lutyenshousesga00weav (find matches)
Title: Lutyens houses and gardens
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930
Subjects: Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944 Architecture, Domestic Gardens
Publisher: London, Offices of "Country life", ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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100.—Temple Dinsley : Looking into Forecourt from theEast. A Study in Brick and Iron. 142 Treatment of a Bath
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ioi.—In a Bathroom. the drawing- and smoking-rooms. Between the windowsare glazed china-cupboards with engaging wooden tracery.The smoking-room is interesting by reason of its unpaintedpanelling of pine, left clean and untouched from the tool andlooking very fresh and pleasant. Upstairs the bedroomsare planned on ample lines, and the treatment of one of thebaths with white marble top and an ebony case of openfretwork, hung behind with a gay-coloured fabric, representsan unusual idea (Fig. ioi). The garden terrace enclosedby the new wings are sunless, but that is the fault of theold builders, who placed the house so oddly on its site.We walk round, therefore, by the north-west corner, toseek the most gracious part of the garden, which stretchesaway from the new west front. This elevation, seen in partto the left of the photograph in Fig. 102, is gravely elegant.The general character of the old house is maintained, thekeystones being based on the old work, but improved intheir proport

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