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Identifier: internationalstu75newy (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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ility are concerned. Do not place a teahouse of this type in an Italian garden or in one VINE-CLAD SUMMER HOUSE WITH BACK-GROUND OF TREES ON GARDNER M. LANEESTATE, MANCHESTER, MASS. with a Colonial setting, but ina woody, shady spot, wheretrees, rocks and wild flowerscombine to form a cool green nook. A rustic housein such a place will blend with its surroundings asif nature herself had placed it there. We have inmind a tea house of this type with thatched roofat Ipswich, Massachusetts. It has for its setting abackground of white birches and trees of darkerhue, and by its side flows the little Ipswich River,the gentle ripple of its waves making music forthe guests who delight to spend a few momentsin this cool retreat. A charming Japanese garden at Shrewsbury,Massachusetts, laid out by a Japanese landscapegardener, contains a little tea house which appearsto have been dropped there straight from oldJapan. It is very simple, built on straight lines, two sixty JUNE 1922 inceRnAcionAL Kl
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and stands near a little streamwhich is crossed by a rusticbridge. The effect is charmingand most unusual. At Wenham, reached by ashort walk over a grassy slope is a tea houseperched over an archway of rock, looking downupon a clear pool and white fountain, surroundedby iris and rushes. Under the arch is a com-fortable seat and around it vines clamber, cover-ing the old rock with a veiling of green leaves. Vines of many sorts are of course a delightfuladdition to any tea house, but they should not OCTAGONAL TEA HOISE AND STONE ARCH ON THE JOHN C. PHILIPS ESTATE, WENHAM, MASS. vine winding up the posts.If Colonial, treat it with old-fashioned vines and flowers.Should your garden house be of Japanese design,leave it almost without planting, trusting to thesetting to carry out the effect. Give each tea houseits own suitable treatment. Careful thoughtand planning should be the watchword, and areliable garden book your guide. Of the making of elaborate tea houses thereis no end, but this t

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