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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
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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. 75). Note howthe building piles itself up from the ground, the side chimneyswith their heavy banding marking the break between thethree middle elements and the low wings of billiard-roomand kitchen. Observe, too, the solid base wrhich is affordedby the terrace walls, with their sturdy bastions and thedelightful sweep of the flights of steps. At each end ofthe terrace are gabled walls, which form a background topergolas. There is a true Italian note in the lily pondsbeneath the terrace (Fig. yy). The design of the balconetsis blended of strength and pleasant line and yet lightensthe prospect of the terrace. In the garden rhododendronsbloom vigorously, and the dry stone terrace walls confirmthe name of wallflowers. There is something almostof a foreign air about this Yorkshire garden on a summerevening, for the terrace looks across a little valley to themoor, which rises there some eight hundred feet, and thelights of houses on the slope twinkle like glowT-worms. Heathcote, Ilkley 117
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n8 Heathcote, Ilkley Although the space to be dealt with was small, the greatcurves of the lawn (Fig. 83) have given an air of spacious-ness. The style of architecture adopted is an inelastic one ;but it has this merit in competent hands, that, though inpart foreign to English traditions, it has an essence that isacceptable to all cultivated Western minds. It is the out-come of fifteen centuries of trial and error. It possesses theelements of absolute permanence, and depends on its righthandling for its success. Heathcote showrs the blendingof feeling with scholarship without which Palladianismbecomes merely an historical husk. The effect is notmerely the result of learning nor of an accepted style. Aman may know ten languages and yet be unable to expressan idea in any one of them. Architectural museums havejust such capitals as are here, and the mouldings, good asthey are, have been done before. What are needed, andwhat Heathcote shows, are the just gift of selection and thecourage t

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