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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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tion, Sandwich : Entrance Front122. ,, ,, Salon Door 163164 165166166167168 List of Illustrations 7 123.124.125.126.127. REPARATION OF A SUSSEX MANOR HOUSE ANDAN IRISH CASTLE Great Dixter Howth Castle Porch from the North-eastGround Floor PlanThe Hall : West End Granite Oriel The Loggia PAGE 1711 72 173175176 FOLLY FARM 128. Folly Farm : From the South, before the 1912 Additions . 179 129. ,, ,, Ground Plan ...... 180 130. ,, ,, Forecourt Wall and 1906 Wing . . .181 131. ,, ,, South Side: 1906 and 1912 Wings . . 183 132. ,, „ The Black Hall 184 133. ,, ,, Dining-room Loggia and Tank . . . 183 134. ,, ,, Dining-room Fireplace . . . .187133. ,, ,, Corner Fireplace in Chief Bedroom . .188 136.137-138. 139.140. 141. 142.143-144- DESIGNS FOR FURNITURE Grand Piano at MarshcourtUpholstered Bed at Great MaythamTemple DinsleyA Garden SeatTable with Cabriole Legs .A Side Table .... Country Life Office : The Vestibule The EntranceParliament Chamber, Inner Temple . 189190191192 193194 196198200
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o < hi Lutyens Houses and Gardens CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY A General Survey of the Development and Character of Sir EdwinsWork—Early Picturesqueness—His Surrey Manner—GrowingRestraint of Design—London Work—Treatment of AncientBuildings— Styles and Style —Invention and Humour. THE writing of a book about the work of a living artistpresents obvious difficulties, but one of them can beavoided by giving to it as little as possible the characterof a biography. It will be enough, therefore, to set downhere that Edwin Landseer Lutyens was born in London inMarch, 1869, the eleventh of a family of fourteen. Hisfather, Mr. Charles Lutyens, after leaving the army, becamea painter, whose pleasure in experimenting with varioustechniques marks an interesting point in artistic heredity,for his architect son has always been swift to try freshcombinations of materials. E. L. Lutyens was educatedat a private school, studied for two years at South Kensing-ton, and was a year in the office

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