This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...of red and purple. Barren controversy as to the spirit which should inform town architecture may be evaded by the assumption that the interposition of Regent's Park makes St. John's Wood a village today as it was, in some sort, when Elmes took his walks abroad. 119.--DINING-ROOM. "polished rurality " of Avenue Road, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...of red and purple. Barren controversy as to the spirit which should inform town architecture may be evaded by the assumption that the interposition of Regent's Park makes St. John's Wood a village today as it was, in some sort, when Elmes took his walks abroad. 119.--DINING-ROOM. "polished rurality " of Avenue Road, where mansions and Queen Anne plays her demure On that assumption the house Mr. Baillie Scott designed for the late Sir Boverton Redwood is a complete fulfilment of the country ideal, and, what is more important, a faithful presentment of the architect's own gospel. For in 1915 Mr. Baillie Scott would have nothing to do with "the scholar or classic house," and called aloud for " the craftsman or romantic house." In the Cantor lectures for that year he put his case in persuasive words: "The main quality of the craftsman building is that it is elastic and accommodating. Windows and doors can be placed where they are wanted and the whole effect is natural, unaffected and homely. It kindles the imagination, and is full of the mysterious charm of romance. The classic house represents a statement complete and finite. It is THE CLOISTERS AVENUE RCYVD WW 121.--GROUND FLOOR PLAN. 122.--THE LIBRARY. a conscious piece of art which has been definitely arranged from the outside--not the natural outcome of internal requirements. It seems to challenge our regard and demand our homage. There is no escape from the insistence of its facades. But the craftsman house is more subtle in its appeal. It is casual; it rambles and dissembles; and only when we have entered the wide, low doorway, and become steeped in the deep and silent influences which breathe from its walls, do we begin to realise the potency of its charm." It is ...
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