International studio (54.1914/1915)

Studio-Talk


GROUND PLAN OF HOUSE AT LIPHOOK, HANTS
G. UNSWORTH AND INIGO TRIGGS, ARCHITECTS

east side of the house. In a small country house

horrors which have

pursuit of artistic activities.
Such a result was of course
inevitable, for when the grim
spectre of war makes its
appearance the arts and
crafts of peace recede for a
time into the background;
and so stupendous is the
conflict in which the great
nations of the old world are
engaged that its effects are
being severely felt in neutral
countries, even those remote
from the war area. Great,
however, as is the evil which
has befallen the profession
of art in common with
many other pursuits, it is
slight compared with the
attended the movements of

of this character it is an economy in planning to
arrange the dining-room in a central position, and
thus the house has no passages whatever on the

our enemy in the north-west of Europe. We in
Britain have reason to be thankful for the effective
protection of our shores by our maritime forces,

ground floor. The staircase
has been devised around a
central cupboard for the
display of china. There
are five bedrooms and a
dressing-room with bath-
room and housemaid’s
cupboard on the first floor.
The gardens have been
laid out in conjunction
with the house, their prin-
cipal features being a sunk
water garden on the south
side of the house with pools
fed by rain water. Messrs.
Unsworth and Triggs were
responsible for the planning
of the gardens as well as
the house.

STUDIO-TALK.

(From Our Own
Correspondents.)

IONDON.—One of the
dire results of the
great war which
—> has descended

upon Europe like some
vast and overwhelming vol-
canic eruption is its
paralysing effect on the
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“ PORTRAIT OF MISS C.”

BY W. M. CHASE

(Anglo-American Exposition, Shepherd’s Bush)