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#0198
An Architect's Home
INGLE-NOOK AT GROVE HILL COTTAGE, HARROW ARNOLD MITCHELL, ARCHITECT
tion, and even, at times, feel the charm of rude, and harmoniously decorated ceiling, and especially
awkward genius; but to be excited over cultured its comfortable ingle-nook, to realise that it is a
acquirement is a strain on the most fluent writer, room to live in comfortably and restfully. The
for, with its worthiness apparent to the most casual staircase (see page 174) and the various rooms
observer, nothing is left to discover or to defend. illustrated show plainly the same adaptability to
It would be easy to take the facade, the plan, their purpose. _ " G."
the decoration, the furnishing, the appointments,
and praise every item of this house in turn, but If the Permanent Gallery of Decorative Art,
it seems best to let the illustrations speak for which has just been opened at 9, Harrington Road,
themselves. South Kensington, succeeds in fulfilling the inten-
To be entirely convinced of beauty and yet to tion of its promoters, it will be a very valuable
be dumb is not a novel attitude. It is, indeed, a addition to the by no means numerous centres of
most human one. But it is awkward, like many influence which exist to develop the popular taste
forgivable lapses, and if the awkwardness is liable for decorative art. It is to be, as its name implies,,
to be misunderstood it must be not for lack of a permanent place where craftsmen can show their
plain speaking. Mr. Arnold Mitchell's house is work, and be brought in touch with the people
"as good as they make'em." The expression is who are interested in applied arts of the better-
vulgar, but incapable of misinterpretation. A kind. Nothing will be presented in it which is.
would-be eulogist reduced to repeat a catchword not marked by individuality and real intention :;
of the street in place of well-balanced phrase, by its and a really high standard of artistic merit in the
very utterance proves himself sincere if not peculiarly exhibits will be insisted upon. All branches of
eloquent. One has but to explore (by aid of the decorative production are to be encouraged, and
photographs on page 171) the long living-room, therefore the scope of the exhibition will be wide
with its well chosen furniture, its panelled walls enough to make it of practical importance.
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INGLE-NOOK AT GROVE HILL COTTAGE, HARROW ARNOLD MITCHELL, ARCHITECT
tion, and even, at times, feel the charm of rude, and harmoniously decorated ceiling, and especially
awkward genius; but to be excited over cultured its comfortable ingle-nook, to realise that it is a
acquirement is a strain on the most fluent writer, room to live in comfortably and restfully. The
for, with its worthiness apparent to the most casual staircase (see page 174) and the various rooms
observer, nothing is left to discover or to defend. illustrated show plainly the same adaptability to
It would be easy to take the facade, the plan, their purpose. _ " G."
the decoration, the furnishing, the appointments,
and praise every item of this house in turn, but If the Permanent Gallery of Decorative Art,
it seems best to let the illustrations speak for which has just been opened at 9, Harrington Road,
themselves. South Kensington, succeeds in fulfilling the inten-
To be entirely convinced of beauty and yet to tion of its promoters, it will be a very valuable
be dumb is not a novel attitude. It is, indeed, a addition to the by no means numerous centres of
most human one. But it is awkward, like many influence which exist to develop the popular taste
forgivable lapses, and if the awkwardness is liable for decorative art. It is to be, as its name implies,,
to be misunderstood it must be not for lack of a permanent place where craftsmen can show their
plain speaking. Mr. Arnold Mitchell's house is work, and be brought in touch with the people
"as good as they make'em." The expression is who are interested in applied arts of the better-
vulgar, but incapable of misinterpretation. A kind. Nothing will be presented in it which is.
would-be eulogist reduced to repeat a catchword not marked by individuality and real intention :;
of the street in place of well-balanced phrase, by its and a really high standard of artistic merit in the
very utterance proves himself sincere if not peculiarly exhibits will be insisted upon. All branches of
eloquent. One has but to explore (by aid of the decorative production are to be encouraged, and
photographs on page 171) the long living-room, therefore the scope of the exhibition will be wide
with its well chosen furniture, its panelled walls enough to make it of practical importance.
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