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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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d,and the two houses illustrated mark an all-round developmentand an increasing facility of design. The Deanery Gardenwas his last important essay in half-timber work and isone of the best, if not the best, of the modern housesbuilt in this manner during last century. The gardenalso shows a growing skill in the treatment of water. Home-wood, Knebworth (Figs. 36 and 37), shows a rare surrenderto a foreign influence. It owes a little to Cape Dutcharchitecture, but in spirit only, not in the letter, which issui generis. 12 The Tudor Mood The exterior of Marshcourt (Chapter V) shows a mostcharacteristic Tudor mood. It is superb in its own manner,but the growing tendency to adopt a more restful basis fordesign is clear from the classical flavour of the interiors.Their treatment, however, is markedly immature when com-pared with later work, and shows a somewhat undisciplinedrichness and variety of material. Grey Walls, though lessstriking, is a very satisfying composition (Figs. 48 and 49).
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2.—Haif-Timber and Tile-hanging, Sullingstead, 1896. The Georgian Atmosphere 13 To the years 1902-3 belongs the exquisite house of LittleThakeham (Figs. 50-53), with its exterior in the late Tudormanner, but yet instinct with personal feeling. The interioris frankly Palladian and shows a growing tendency towardsausterity of treatment and a more visible scholarship. The sun-trap type of house plan causes many problems,on which architects delight to test their ingenuity, andPapillon Hall (Figs. 54-56) shows how skilfully the manydifficulties which beset this type of plan have been avoided.On the general question of planning it is fair to say that inthe earlier houses convenience of arrangement was some-times sacrificed to a preconceived idea of exterior treat-ment. This was probably due to the fact that Sir Edwinbegan to practise without that grounding in the hard factsof design which is part of a regular and organized archi-tectural education. Impelled into architecture by a naturalp

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