International studio (26.1905)

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STAINED GLASS WINDOW FOR A RESIDENCE AT IRVINGTON-ON-THE-HUDSON, N. Y.
TIFFANY STUDIOS, NEW YORK

glass separated by one foot of insulating air space
and a supporting steel frame; and were particularly
recommended as dispensing entirely with the need
of windows proper and affording an opportunity for
a most original interiour plan and exteriour design.
If we incline to feel that this suggestion from Iowa
is still somewhat ahead of the times, we can hardly
say that it has pointed a new direction. A fearless
mind in Des Moines has merely carried forward
an impulse we have approved for homes, schools
and offices, whether state or private; and,naturally,

for the coaches drawn over picturesque railway
routes. If we still fail generally to respond when it
comes to the church, that is for reasons which,
however obvious, will bear noting for their perti-
nency to the use of the window space for decoration.
In some aspects a church, like a theatre, has no
windows. Such as there are own a pedigree decor-
ative rather than utilitarian, descending from the
mosaics for which the Byzantine builders conceived
the happy thought of translucency. This is not to
pretend that in new church building to-day we

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