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Identifier: internationalstu38newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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heand is connected on the south side by a small east and west. staircase with the pergola shown in the drawing Entirely simple means are relied upon in the between the east and west wings. The aim in second design on page 104, both for pictorialthis plan has been to obtain the greatest possible and practical results. The plan is arranged inamount of privacy without sacrificing too much order to provide a large square hall in the centrethe principal advantages of a riverside house. of the house, to which the round-headed door- Thc small cloister court with its covered walks, way, shown in the sketch, leads from the gardenand the garth with its paved ways and central side. To the right and left of the hall are thefountain would, being exposed to the south on its drawing and dining-rooms, each with a largelong side, have to the full the benefit of sunlight bay window at its narrow end. These principaland air. The little round-headed doorway shown windows look to the west and east respec-
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A BOWLI.NG ALI.EV DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY K. L. GRIGGS in the view would connect this court by means ofthe stepped way, through a wild garden, with theriverside. The materials for the walls and roofs would bethe local hand-made bricks and tiles—all thewalling is ))roposed of brick, some variation incolour being obtained by the use of Daneshillbricks in the (juoins, chimney stacks and pergola.108 lively. The kitchen offices are on the eastside of the entrance court, and there are sevenbedrooms over. The whole design has beencarefully arranged within a long and narrow rect-angle with an unbroken ridge line, in order toobtain the maximum amount of accommodationat the minimum cost. The same desire, applied to a somewhat smaller West Cornwall as a Sketching Gromid house, is illustrated by the sketch on page 105—which shows a portion of the south front. Hereall the materials are of the plainest descriptionand treated in the traditional manner of thedistrict. Colour, texture and form are t

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