DOI Heft:
No. 37 (April, 1896)
DOI Artikel:The revival of English domestic architecture, [3], The work of Mr. Ernest George
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0167
The Revival of English Domestic A rchitecture
DINING-ROOM AT 7 COLLINGHAM GARDENS ERNEST GEORGE, ARCHITECT
(From a Photograph by Messrs. Bedford Lemere &• Co.)
Harrington Gardens, which, in a photograph, re- effect, which is usually picturesque and decorative
calls a quay at Ghent, or a certain canal bank at to a marked degree.
Mechlin, seen in the quiet atmosphere of London, The whole district by Harrington and Collingham
seems singularly broad and simple, and almost fails Gardens is full of examples of mansions that really
to suggest its progenitors. For there we find much deserve that ambitious title. The striking indi-
less ornament than a first glance at the facade sug- viduality of the various houses is not more sur-
gests. But to discern that buildings which at first prising than the harmonious groups into which they
sight appear to be ornate may be really simple, is fall, no matter which points of view you select,
not an argument put forward either as an apology Employing now brick, now stone, now terra-cotta,
or a claim. A great musician can obtain his desired singly or combined, Mr. Ernest George has a more
effect by three stringed instruments in a chamber ample palette than the architects of the stucco period
trio, or by a symphony which employs a full dreamt of. And these materials age pleasantly,
orchestra ; but it is proof of his being a master that a quality which its most fervid admirers could never
he never attempts to gain the effect suited for one claim for parti-coloured brick in the smoky atmo-
combination when he is using the resources of the sphere of London. Coming up from St. James's
other. Mr. Ernest George has the happy facility of Palace, when a clear sunset sky throws the salmon-
scoring his compositions for a simple trio or a full coloured facade of the Albemarle Hotel intopromi-
band ; in other words, to drop the metaphor, he nence, the whole scheme is gay and strangely un-
can design a perfectly simple economic structure, like a London street; indeed, the first time you
or one that fulfils the needs of a millionaire, and, see this particular effect, the very sky seems to have
moreover, in each produces his deliberately chosen caught a new note of blue by force of contrast.
!S3
DINING-ROOM AT 7 COLLINGHAM GARDENS ERNEST GEORGE, ARCHITECT
(From a Photograph by Messrs. Bedford Lemere &• Co.)
Harrington Gardens, which, in a photograph, re- effect, which is usually picturesque and decorative
calls a quay at Ghent, or a certain canal bank at to a marked degree.
Mechlin, seen in the quiet atmosphere of London, The whole district by Harrington and Collingham
seems singularly broad and simple, and almost fails Gardens is full of examples of mansions that really
to suggest its progenitors. For there we find much deserve that ambitious title. The striking indi-
less ornament than a first glance at the facade sug- viduality of the various houses is not more sur-
gests. But to discern that buildings which at first prising than the harmonious groups into which they
sight appear to be ornate may be really simple, is fall, no matter which points of view you select,
not an argument put forward either as an apology Employing now brick, now stone, now terra-cotta,
or a claim. A great musician can obtain his desired singly or combined, Mr. Ernest George has a more
effect by three stringed instruments in a chamber ample palette than the architects of the stucco period
trio, or by a symphony which employs a full dreamt of. And these materials age pleasantly,
orchestra ; but it is proof of his being a master that a quality which its most fervid admirers could never
he never attempts to gain the effect suited for one claim for parti-coloured brick in the smoky atmo-
combination when he is using the resources of the sphere of London. Coming up from St. James's
other. Mr. Ernest George has the happy facility of Palace, when a clear sunset sky throws the salmon-
scoring his compositions for a simple trio or a full coloured facade of the Albemarle Hotel intopromi-
band ; in other words, to drop the metaphor, he nence, the whole scheme is gay and strangely un-
can design a perfectly simple economic structure, like a London street; indeed, the first time you
or one that fulfils the needs of a millionaire, and, see this particular effect, the very sky seems to have
moreover, in each produces his deliberately chosen caught a new note of blue by force of contrast.
!S3