Identifier: villascottages00vaux (find matches)
Title: Villas and cottages
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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i-tects design, if it is judged of from elevation only, andyet it is by no means uncommon to find this mode of 196 VILLAS AND COTTAGES. illustration adopted in architectural works in prefer-ence to any other. If a study for a house is proposedto be so drawn out that it may be used by builders forworking purposes, it is absolutely necessary that plans,elevations, and sections should be furnished, becauseno measurements can be taken from a perspectivedrawing, however neatly it may be done; but if thestudy is submitted with a view to show what sort ofartistic effect may be produced, in execution, from acertain arrangement of ground plan, nothing but a per-spective view will convey an accurate idea to the mind;and as the intention in this volume has been to givesuggestions, rather than to supply cut-and-dried de-signs, the perspective mode of illustration has been ad-hered to as much as possible. The vignette shows a design for a fence and gateexecuted in connection with the above design.
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VILLAS AND COTTAGES. 199 DESIGN No. 14. (D. & V.) A SYMMETRICAL COUNTRY PIOUSE. This design was prepared and executed in the vicin-ity of Newburgh, with the exception of the ventilatingturret, which was a suggestion offered at the time thebuilding was erected. This prominent feature hasnot, however, yet been carried into execution, as thegentleman for whom the plan was prepared pre-ferred to omit it; still, it forms an integral part ofthe design, and is introduced in the sketch, as thecomposition appears to be somewhat incompletelyrepresented without it. There were some special re-quirements made by the proprietor in this instancethat are, perhaps, with some readers, calculated togive additional interest to this plan. The house dur-ing the summer months was to be, to all intents andpurposes, a Southern house; ample circulation of air

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