International studio (35.1908)

Italian Style


HOUSE FOR J. 0. BLOSS

ALFRED BUSELLE, ARCHITECT

frames of leaf ornament around deer skulls; and
the little pergola treatment over the three double
windows is a happy one. The continuous treat-
ment of the second-story windows, too, is interest-
ing, and we find that these are arranged, starting
from the left, in groups of two, two, three, two and
three, with dark-colored panels between, a most
daring and successful experiment. Below these
windows, instead of the conventional flower boxes,
is a simply designed rack, holding large flower
pots.
All the windows are divided into rectangles by
the white muntins, without any tricky arrangement.
The bay window may, perhaps, be a little out of
harmony with the.rest of the house; it seems too
glaringly white against the softer tones of the re-
mainder of the work, but it is easy to see how lovely
would be the effect of the colors of the painted sun-
dial over the door. The well, with its tile curb-

ing, and the pool all are well in the picture, and
evidently a master hand selected and set the
shrubs.
It is along the line of thought shown in this Amer-
icanizing of Italian that the style should be used;
careless of precedent, but alert to beauty, with a
mind awake to the importance of little things as well
as to the satisfactory design of the whole mass. It
has been long asserted, perhaps with much truth,
that the American designers paid little attention to
detail; here is proof not alone in the Bartlett house,
but in all those shown, that their designers are capa-
ble of infinite pains to achieve the desired result.
A. E. II.
The print department of the New York Public
Library has been holding in the Lenox Library
building an exhibition of Danish etchings from
the private collection of Dr. Axel Hellrung.

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