DOI Heft:
No. 69 (December 1898)
DOI Artikel:An architects home: Mr. Arnold Mitchell's cottage at Harrow
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19230#0195
An Architect's Home
successes. If the work in question, be it a sonnet The outer door, of oak, carved by Miss Theodora
or a building, betrays sheer genius in certain Devitt, has been left in its natural colour. The
aspects and lamentable failure in others, it offers photograph reproduced on page 168 explains its
an advocate a case worth arguing. Then he may design so clearly that it would be useless to add a
do his best to exalt its merits and to gloss over description in words. In the hall is some excellent
its faults. But if the subject for discussion is stained glass by Mr. Oscar Paterson, whose work
merely a most excellent example of its kind, has lately been dealt with in The Studio : the sub-
scholarly and sufficient, the would-be special jects are ships and the sea, treated in his individual
pleader is disarmed. There is nothing to defend, and very decorative fashion. The woodwork of the
and nothing to load with undue emphasis in order hall and staircase is painted white, with a frieze in
to prevent obvious faults being noticed. A popular strong green ; in place of an ordinary carpet the
and modish writer but lately confessed that when stairs are covered with Daghestan rugs,
he dispraised he was amusing, but when he tried The dining-room facing east, is quite a small
to praise he became dull. Possibly the average room, one wall all window, with a wide low win-.
reader was not impressed by this confession and dow-seat. The room is in green and yellow,
thought it mere persiflage. Yet it is fatally true; variety of colour being introduced by an old
and a writer describing a work like the one which cabinet of blue china. The principal living-room
forms the text of this paper cannot forget the is a spacious apartment, thirty-six feet long, with
danger. Still, 'at the risk of being tedious, it is three ten-foot bays and a ten-foot ingle-nook,
needful to make some comment on the illustra- The stalls to the height of seven feet are panelled
tions, and to attempt to convey to one who has in darkened oak, as is the ceiling of the ingle-
not had the good fortune to see the real home a nook; the floor is also of oak. The ceiling of the
faint impression of its undoubted if not peculiarly room itself and the frieze below are of modelled
unique charm and attraction. plaster in low relief. Electric light is carried by
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GROVE HILL COTTAGE, HARROW.
170
ARNOLD MITCHELL, ARCHITECT
successes. If the work in question, be it a sonnet The outer door, of oak, carved by Miss Theodora
or a building, betrays sheer genius in certain Devitt, has been left in its natural colour. The
aspects and lamentable failure in others, it offers photograph reproduced on page 168 explains its
an advocate a case worth arguing. Then he may design so clearly that it would be useless to add a
do his best to exalt its merits and to gloss over description in words. In the hall is some excellent
its faults. But if the subject for discussion is stained glass by Mr. Oscar Paterson, whose work
merely a most excellent example of its kind, has lately been dealt with in The Studio : the sub-
scholarly and sufficient, the would-be special jects are ships and the sea, treated in his individual
pleader is disarmed. There is nothing to defend, and very decorative fashion. The woodwork of the
and nothing to load with undue emphasis in order hall and staircase is painted white, with a frieze in
to prevent obvious faults being noticed. A popular strong green ; in place of an ordinary carpet the
and modish writer but lately confessed that when stairs are covered with Daghestan rugs,
he dispraised he was amusing, but when he tried The dining-room facing east, is quite a small
to praise he became dull. Possibly the average room, one wall all window, with a wide low win-.
reader was not impressed by this confession and dow-seat. The room is in green and yellow,
thought it mere persiflage. Yet it is fatally true; variety of colour being introduced by an old
and a writer describing a work like the one which cabinet of blue china. The principal living-room
forms the text of this paper cannot forget the is a spacious apartment, thirty-six feet long, with
danger. Still, 'at the risk of being tedious, it is three ten-foot bays and a ten-foot ingle-nook,
needful to make some comment on the illustra- The stalls to the height of seven feet are panelled
tions, and to attempt to convey to one who has in darkened oak, as is the ceiling of the ingle-
not had the good fortune to see the real home a nook; the floor is also of oak. The ceiling of the
faint impression of its undoubted if not peculiarly room itself and the frieze below are of modelled
unique charm and attraction. plaster in low relief. Electric light is carried by
[~-------'------r '-------~~ "-----: ' ■
GROVE HILL COTTAGE, HARROW.
170
ARNOLD MITCHELL, ARCHITECT