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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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nt severity is relaxed, and there are touches, not ofgaiety, but of a smiling graciousness, which befit the out-door moments of the home. We go in through a vestibulefrom which doors lead to the kitchen quarters, to thestaircase hall, and to a lobby, wrhich opens both on to thelatter and to the main hall on the south front (plan: Fig.80). From the staircase hall wTe enter* the billiard-room,where by a happy inspiration the hangings are of the clothsacred to billiard-tables the world over. It is refreshing,after the chaos of yellow-greens and brown-greens that areconfounded together in that name of reproach, art-green,to find a green which is wholly green. The staircase hallshows fertility in planning, and by a happy boldness theblack marble stairs and the black iron balustrade (Fig. 78),with its steel handrail, contrast with the cream-coloured wrallsof Ancaster stone below and the plaster-work of the upperlanding. The graceful lines of the ironwork afford relief The Palladian Note 109
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77.—Heathcote, Ilkley : South-east Pool. no Lutyens Houses and Gardens

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