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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
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neys rise at right angles to the main line of thebuilding. On the south side the middle part of the frontrises some feet above the eaves, and the ends are markedby admirable stone vases. A vigorous rhythm is affordedby the plain brick pilasters, and they further give a verticalemphasis to a wall that might be dull without them. Thegarden has taken good shape, and Fig. 107 shows the gener-ous lines on which borders and paths were planned. Withinthe house all is simply and sanely devised. The arrange-ment of the rooms is as practical as can be, and the spaciousloggia which opens out of the drawing-room is a pleasantplace. Of conscious decorative effect there is little, but inthe open screen which divides the staircase from the passageto the garden lobby Sir Edwin has employed irregulartrellising with his usual skill (Fig. 108). Chussex is a housethat grows on the observer. When its plan (Fig. 109) isexamined, it is seen how practical it all is, and how the 154 Lutyens Houses and Gardens
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H% O« wu w ►J u oO w H«O paw The Golf Club, Knebworth 155 elevations grow out of it. Yet they express an idea evolvedby sheer power of design. The Knebworth Golf Club House (Fig. no) is a goodexample of perfectly symmetrical treatment in a type ofbuilding which usually is conceived on irregular lines. Itsplain brick walls and pantiled roof show none of thoseprettinesses which are too often thought the needful equip-ment of a building consecrated to play. The dignifiedplanning of the forecourt has the advantage of pulling to-gether into a coherent scheme the outbuildings which are soimportant an element in the working of the place. Oftenthese are mere hutches scattered about without any definiterelation to the clubhouse. Here they are an added attrac-tion instead of an eyesore. 156 Lutyens Houses and Gardens CHAPTER XIV NASHDOM, TAPLOW, BUCKS, 1909 The Austerity of Whitewashed Brick—The Dining-Room Table—A Fireplace Wind Dial—Originality and a Phrase of CoventryPatmore—Urba

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