DOI Heft:
No. 61 (April, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Modern domestic architecture: the work of Mr. Ernest Newton, [1]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0199
The IVork of Ernest Newton
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ested in such matters than those immediately ously designed for its own purpose, and not deco-
concerned—will find Buller's Wood both new and rated as people decorate a piece of ordinary bric-
satisfying. While each of the reception-rooms, so a-l>rac, by unrelated ornament spotted all over it.
called, can be entered separately, there is also the But by a legitimate variety of material, refined and
means of communication between all without cir- sparing employment of even constructive features
cumlocution. As the plan is given on so small a when they are used for aesthetic effect only, and an
scale, it seemed advisable to draw attention to it; indefinable sense of style which escapes analysis
but the exterior needs no comment. The facade and imitation he gains the truer effect,
opening on the terrace (as shown in one of the A fuller consideration of the work of this
views here given) is not quite so reticent as most architect must be deferred until another occasion,
of Mr. Newton's elevations, but it is possible that Unless we are unduly conceited, to-day is a fruitful
this aspect is one which can only be seen from the period for domestic architecture, and, in different
terrace in question. If it is compared with the ways, there are a comparatively large number of
other view showing the same facade, with the ter- men doing first-rate work. Mr. Norman Shaw,
races below it, the treatment of the chimney gable Mr. Krnest George, and Mr. C. F. A. Yoysey have
does not tell out so prominently, because the ingle- already found commendation in The Studio, and
nook windows of the drawing-room, which appear Mr. Newton does not close the list of men who
rather unrestfully in the former, are quite lost in have helped to remove reproach from the oldest
th«- latter. of the arts. Here it is not to the purpose to
Mr. Emest Newton never forgets the scale to adjudge the comparative merits of these or of
which he is building, so that his work does not look others yet to be noticed, but only to insist that at
like magnified cabinets or toy castles, but is obvi- last England has produced a new school of archi
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RED COURT, HASLEMERE : ENTRANCE ERNEST NEWTON, ARCHITECT
ested in such matters than those immediately ously designed for its own purpose, and not deco-
concerned—will find Buller's Wood both new and rated as people decorate a piece of ordinary bric-
satisfying. While each of the reception-rooms, so a-l>rac, by unrelated ornament spotted all over it.
called, can be entered separately, there is also the But by a legitimate variety of material, refined and
means of communication between all without cir- sparing employment of even constructive features
cumlocution. As the plan is given on so small a when they are used for aesthetic effect only, and an
scale, it seemed advisable to draw attention to it; indefinable sense of style which escapes analysis
but the exterior needs no comment. The facade and imitation he gains the truer effect,
opening on the terrace (as shown in one of the A fuller consideration of the work of this
views here given) is not quite so reticent as most architect must be deferred until another occasion,
of Mr. Newton's elevations, but it is possible that Unless we are unduly conceited, to-day is a fruitful
this aspect is one which can only be seen from the period for domestic architecture, and, in different
terrace in question. If it is compared with the ways, there are a comparatively large number of
other view showing the same facade, with the ter- men doing first-rate work. Mr. Norman Shaw,
races below it, the treatment of the chimney gable Mr. Krnest George, and Mr. C. F. A. Yoysey have
does not tell out so prominently, because the ingle- already found commendation in The Studio, and
nook windows of the drawing-room, which appear Mr. Newton does not close the list of men who
rather unrestfully in the former, are quite lost in have helped to remove reproach from the oldest
th«- latter. of the arts. Here it is not to the purpose to
Mr. Emest Newton never forgets the scale to adjudge the comparative merits of these or of
which he is building, so that his work does not look others yet to be noticed, but only to insist that at
like magnified cabinets or toy castles, but is obvi- last England has produced a new school of archi
7