DOI issue:
Nr. 211 (September, 1914)
DOI article:Nixson Hopkins, Una: Some phases of domestic architecture in the Southwest
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43456#0224
Some Phases of Domestic Architecture in the Southwest
the land of the chrysanthemum has influenced
him in favour of certain Japanese characteristics;
or, possibly, it is the substantial English country
house which makes an appeal, or the picturesque
Swiss chalet, or an Italian villa—or it may be
with the niceties of French detail that he wishes
his house embellished.
And this brings us to the work of Robert D.
Farquhar. Though not limiting himself to any
one type of production, Mr. Farquhar shows the
distinct influence in his work of long residence in
yet there is a strong touch of originality about the
design, such as only genius can produce.
The house faces seaward, and for background
there are tall eucalyptus, decidedly a blue-green.
The outside walls are pale gray, with columns and
casings of a rich cream colour, and the blue-green
of the roof entirely agrees with that of the trees.
This long roof expanse is broken by French dor-
mers set at pleasing intervals—in fact, every line
here pleases one’s sense of proportion. Grey
cement walks are bordered by bands of pink and
Photograph by Frederick W. Martin
THE HOME OF DR. JOHN R. HAYNES, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
France, together with the rare technical training
of the Beaux-Arts. He combines in his houses that
elegance and simplicity of which the elect in
France are past masters. This applies to their
chapeaux or their chateaux—wherever they have
an opportunity to express themselves in line and
colour. The point is especially well illustrated in
Mr. Farquhar’s own summer home at Santa
Monica. Nothing could be more simple and at
the same time more elegant. And though the
house is built selon les regies, for Mr. Farquhar
always knows whereof he speaks architecturally,
white daisies, their green foliage melting into the
clover lawn.
Between the exterior and interior there is a high
degree of concord, for inside there is the same
delightful colour arrangement, and a real French
notion is furthered by locating the main living
room on the garden side of the house. French
windows open directly on the terrace and the gar-
den just beyond is "worked out” in blooms of
different tones of pink with grey borders of dusty
miller, the cream colour appearing in the high
lattice fence.
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the land of the chrysanthemum has influenced
him in favour of certain Japanese characteristics;
or, possibly, it is the substantial English country
house which makes an appeal, or the picturesque
Swiss chalet, or an Italian villa—or it may be
with the niceties of French detail that he wishes
his house embellished.
And this brings us to the work of Robert D.
Farquhar. Though not limiting himself to any
one type of production, Mr. Farquhar shows the
distinct influence in his work of long residence in
yet there is a strong touch of originality about the
design, such as only genius can produce.
The house faces seaward, and for background
there are tall eucalyptus, decidedly a blue-green.
The outside walls are pale gray, with columns and
casings of a rich cream colour, and the blue-green
of the roof entirely agrees with that of the trees.
This long roof expanse is broken by French dor-
mers set at pleasing intervals—in fact, every line
here pleases one’s sense of proportion. Grey
cement walks are bordered by bands of pink and
Photograph by Frederick W. Martin
THE HOME OF DR. JOHN R. HAYNES, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
France, together with the rare technical training
of the Beaux-Arts. He combines in his houses that
elegance and simplicity of which the elect in
France are past masters. This applies to their
chapeaux or their chateaux—wherever they have
an opportunity to express themselves in line and
colour. The point is especially well illustrated in
Mr. Farquhar’s own summer home at Santa
Monica. Nothing could be more simple and at
the same time more elegant. And though the
house is built selon les regies, for Mr. Farquhar
always knows whereof he speaks architecturally,
white daisies, their green foliage melting into the
clover lawn.
Between the exterior and interior there is a high
degree of concord, for inside there is the same
delightful colour arrangement, and a real French
notion is furthered by locating the main living
room on the garden side of the house. French
windows open directly on the terrace and the gar-
den just beyond is "worked out” in blooms of
different tones of pink with grey borders of dusty
miller, the cream colour appearing in the high
lattice fence.
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