International studio (57.1915/1916)

Good Taste and the Mansion


TEA HOUSE AND GROUNDS
The entrance hall is in tones of dull sage green
and rose, through which has been arranged with
infinite care of selective colour groupings, old
gold and ivory.
The sense of vastness about the room sounds

living room, and yet it carries the same feeling
of comfort, hospitality and restraining good taste.
The ivory-painted, panelled walls, the black
straight-line furniture with its quaint patternings
of gold and red and azure; the tall silver vases
with their adornment of blossoms; the colour
tile and the leaded windows all blend in a har-
mony of arrangement. And it is this harmony
that the modernists are striving for—a considera-
tion of the elements of the problem and the
blending of each in a simplicity of planning as to
truly denote the fitness of things in their places.
ODIN MARBLES AT BRISTOL
Attention has been called in this

the key-note of the house. A sense of vastness,
that never overawes, but which carries a limitless
suggestion of welcome, of hospitality.
Everywhere this suggestion pervades; it is the
cumulative idea of the house, the result of careful,
sympathetic designing and arranging of the fit-
ments which were made under the hand of Lionel
Robertson.
Perhaps the two most delightful rooms in the
home are the living room and the breakfast room.
The first of these two rooms may be characterised
as the embodiment of comfort. Great, over-
stuffed chairs, covered with soft silk and wool
velours of deep crimson tone, are placed in cozy
groups about the room. Two broad window-
seats fit in either side of the stone fire-place.
On the table at the side a tall lamp sheds its
brilliance through the room from under its silken
shade of gentle contour. Urns of flowers are
everywhere. The walls are covered with a damask
of cafe au lait intershot with silver thread. The
woodwork is sculptured mahogany.
The breakfast room is the antithesis of the

magazine to the Eve ordered by Colonel Samuel
P. Colt from the famous sculptor some two years
ago, which is intended for the grounds of the
Colt Memorial High School. The last collection
of Rodin marbles, signifying some ten years of
labour, have now been acquired by Colonel Colt,
who had no easy task to perform, for the Master
is advanced in years, and was not at all anxious
to part with his treasures. Besides the Mother of
Mankind, credited with being perhaps the most
powerful expression of Rodin’s art, Bristol’s
leading citizen now possesses Psyche, Le Lion
Doulourex and L’Epervier et la Colombe. Had
it not been for the German drive upon Paris, it
is highly improbable that an American would
ever have received these imperishable records of
perhaps the greatest living sculptor.
Psyche is represented with a lantern, searching
for love. The Lion in Pain is seen voicing his
agony and shewing the mighty strength which
is soon to depart. The Hawk and the Dove
represents the male in brutal domination over
the female.

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