DOI Heft:
No. 51 (June 1897)
DOI Artikel:The revival of English domestic architecture, [6]: the work of Mr. C. F. A. Voysey
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0031
Revival of English Domestic Architecture
HOUSE AT HAMPSTEAD C. F. A. VOYSEY, ARCHITECT
with patterns, then he would have you unafraid to its economy, you find a certain treatment for wood-
welcome pattern everywhere; so that in its very work, structural or movable, better adapted than
abundance you may escape the contours of badly others, why for the sake of variety should you use
shaped furniture sharply defined against a plain less admirable methods ?
wall, or some one dominant pattern thrusting itself Painting in simple, pleasant colours has found
on you without any rivals to modify its insistent its opponents at certain times. Yet the common
claim to be noticed. stained deal of the mission-room Gothic, or the
That Mr. Voysey is fond of green painted wood- small vicarage, is no more honest. It is more
work, or of green-coloured furniture, one has indiscreet, but indiscretion is not necessarily truth,
heard urged against him. This is as ignoble a Mr. Voysey's doctrine of honesty is not founded
reason for urging against a craftsman's schemes as on quibbles of this sort. Paint will not hide bad
the ordinary slang of the " art-at-home " columns material, and cover up clumsy workmanship from
of weekly papers. There, we read lately, "green the eye of an expert. But well applied it can
furniture is coming in again," as if it were a mode give a far more pleasant surface than is likely
in hair-dressing, or a fabric for spring costumes. If to be obtained from cheap wood, smeared with
with experience of its utility, and with full belief in a sticky-looking varnish.
There is such a thing as sham
honesty, an affectation of being
IHHHM superior to one's fellows in exact
truth of statement, which is not far
removed from hypocrisy, although
it aims to be at the very opposite
! fl extreme. As, for example, in
"W: woodwork of the Early Victorian
V jjjH (Gothic revival, where even' mortice
J S showed its keyed tenon, and but-
J "JS tresses, whether needed or not by
the construction, were a favourite
1 Wm motive of applied decoration to
buildings as well as furniture.
Btafcjjjl^^^^ In Mr. Voysey's designs for
small houses buttresses frequently
FIREPLACE IN THE HOUSE AT FRENSHAM C. F. A. VOYSEY, ARCHITECT OCClir, but these are not Used
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HOUSE AT HAMPSTEAD C. F. A. VOYSEY, ARCHITECT
with patterns, then he would have you unafraid to its economy, you find a certain treatment for wood-
welcome pattern everywhere; so that in its very work, structural or movable, better adapted than
abundance you may escape the contours of badly others, why for the sake of variety should you use
shaped furniture sharply defined against a plain less admirable methods ?
wall, or some one dominant pattern thrusting itself Painting in simple, pleasant colours has found
on you without any rivals to modify its insistent its opponents at certain times. Yet the common
claim to be noticed. stained deal of the mission-room Gothic, or the
That Mr. Voysey is fond of green painted wood- small vicarage, is no more honest. It is more
work, or of green-coloured furniture, one has indiscreet, but indiscretion is not necessarily truth,
heard urged against him. This is as ignoble a Mr. Voysey's doctrine of honesty is not founded
reason for urging against a craftsman's schemes as on quibbles of this sort. Paint will not hide bad
the ordinary slang of the " art-at-home " columns material, and cover up clumsy workmanship from
of weekly papers. There, we read lately, "green the eye of an expert. But well applied it can
furniture is coming in again," as if it were a mode give a far more pleasant surface than is likely
in hair-dressing, or a fabric for spring costumes. If to be obtained from cheap wood, smeared with
with experience of its utility, and with full belief in a sticky-looking varnish.
There is such a thing as sham
honesty, an affectation of being
IHHHM superior to one's fellows in exact
truth of statement, which is not far
removed from hypocrisy, although
it aims to be at the very opposite
! fl extreme. As, for example, in
"W: woodwork of the Early Victorian
V jjjH (Gothic revival, where even' mortice
J S showed its keyed tenon, and but-
J "JS tresses, whether needed or not by
the construction, were a favourite
1 Wm motive of applied decoration to
buildings as well as furniture.
Btafcjjjl^^^^ In Mr. Voysey's designs for
small houses buttresses frequently
FIREPLACE IN THE HOUSE AT FRENSHAM C. F. A. VOYSEY, ARCHITECT OCClir, but these are not Used
18