Edwin Lutyens

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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
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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
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and outlines of the building develop a natural rather thana contrived picturesqueness. The grouping of the housewith its attendant and attached offices and walled gardensshow the same spirit as that which animated the sixteenth-century Englishman when he built, in native style, a housein which to dwell in native manner. The plan shows(Fig. 22) that as we approach the entrance to the courtyard,we have on our left the stable building. In front is theopening through the north side of the court which admitsto a quadrangle, with inhabited buildings on three sides andon the fourth a cloister (Fig. 21) . This connects the housewith a studio, which was used by Lady Chance for herdelightful essays in garden sculpture. The material chieflyused for the walls is the small-sized yellow rubble-stone ofthe district; but above the windows and in many of thearchways lines of red roofing tiles are built in. The gardenpiers and other architectural details are also done in the same Orchards, Godalming 37
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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
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45.—Stone Sundiai with Lead Inlay. by a balustraded wall, makes a retreat rich in architecturalfancy, and beyond it is a walk where pergola and pools makeup an enchanting picture (Fig. 44). The garden is full ofgracious furnishings like the sundial seen in Fig. 45. Fromwhatever point of view the building is seen, the tallchimneys of moulded brick group in romantic fashionwith bold bays, broad overhanging eaves and greatstretches of mullioned windows. Marshcourt 67 The planning of the house owes nothing to Tudor models,but is frankly modern. Entering through the porch thevisitor finds a long vestibule, at the right-hand end of whichis the main staircase. To the left are openings to the.big hall(Fig. 46). The staircase is an echo of Elizabethan influences,built massively of oak with simple detail in baluster andpanel (Fig. 47). In the hall there is a burst of richnesssuch as we associate with late Jacobean work. Marshcourt
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46.—Marshcourt : The Hall and its Screen. 68 Marshcourt dates from a time when Sir Edwin was giving a more closeattention to details of craftsmanship than is demanded byhis later work in a more austere manner. The ,rich, perhapsit is fair to say heavy, plaster-work of the hall ceiling (Fig.46) shows a vigorous sense not only of decorative values,but of the contrasting play of various textures. Grey Walls is a small, albeit dignified, holiday home

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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
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atearchitectural features in the garden. Sir Edwins taskwas to provide a broad framework to be clothed, and thishe did well. The garden enclosure has been divided intothree sections at different levels; the two lower are little elsethan stretches of unbroken turf, but that which lies directlyin front of the south side of the house is treated in more 74 Lutyens Houses and Gardens 52.—Little Thakeham : The Hall and Screen. detail. A portion, the length of the central block of thehouse, is laid out in flagged paths framing square and oblongbeds. Beyond the east wing the building continues, some-what recessed, as the office annexe. In front of this abroad stairway (Fig. 53), divided into three by platformson which stand tubs of flowers, descends to a set of oblongwater-pools, set round with flagging, in which nymphseas,arums, Iris Kaempferi and other water-loving subjectsdisport themselves. One pool has deep water, and the othertwo are kept rather in the state of morass in order to meet
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53-—Lily Pool and Iris Morass at Little Thakeham. 75 j6 Sun-trap Planning the varying requirements of their denizens. Two flatstretches of lawn, merely broken by plant-clothed dry walls,would have been an arrangement too lacking in incidentto afford adequate support to the house. A strong featurewas needed to carry something of an architectural feelingforward to the garden boundary, and a pergola was chosenfor this purpose (Fig. 51). Something of presence and soliditywas called for, and this effect was attained by setting massiveoak beams, squared and slightly cambered, on to stonepillars of large diameter built up out of local stone roughlvhewn and faced. Even this would have been quite inade-quate without its being set up on a platform and dignifiedby great stairways. The lie of the ground not onlypermitted but suggested this. I turn now to another house in which exteriors treatedin a simple gabled fashion have been combined with interiorelements of a richer and more dignified sor

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