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
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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QO o wso X H< Cl,W o H m QH o OS w Q < O HSH 56 Lutyens Houses and Gardens 57 At Homewood, built in 1901 for the Dowager Lady Lytton,the garden frames the house to admiration. The buildingowes its beauty largely to the skill with which it has beengabled. There is a welcoming charm in the entrance front(Fig. 36). A short drive brings us from the road to a squaregravelled space before the entrance, which is marked by adelightful round hood. The south-east front with its loggiasis a conception of unusual grace (Fig. 37). There is a hintof the South African stoep in the broad space in front ofthe dining-room windows. No roof hangs over the latterto keep out the sunshine, as the pair of loggias stand clearat the sides, and nothing checks the view from the windowsover the quiet rolling landscape. The merit of the design of this front is in the neighbour-hood of Ionic pilasters to the simple elements of roof andgable, which are the essence of a treatment characteristicof farmhouse trad

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