DOI Heft:
No. 83 (February, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Scott, Mackay H. Baillie: A country house
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0044
A Country House
for its particular function in the domestic economy. both hall and bower are gainers—the hall being
Some of these may indeed be left quite open to enriched by that vista of glimmering whiteness,
the hall without any more substantial division than seen under its massive posts and beams, and the
a curtain, and so bear to it some such relation as bower becoming all the more delicate and all
the chapels in a cathedral to the main building. the more cosy in such a close companionship with
Others, from the nature of their uses, may demand the solid qualities and open spaces of the hall,
a more effectual screen from sound and sight, but At the opposite end of the hall is another recess,
these will not be as large as if they formed a unit which is set apart for meals. The title "refectory "
in a series of small rooms. And so we may welcome may sound a trifle affected, but it is given in default
the cosiness of these little retreats in contrast to of any other which so fully expresses its uses,
the open spaces of the hall on the other side Here one catches a glimpse of a table bright with
of the door. silver, glass, and flowers against the dark back-
To consider these in detail—these appendages ground of the seating which runs round three sides
to the hall—there is, first, the "ladies' bower," of the table.
the " drawing-room " as we now call it. This is a Some such arrangement of a dining-table has
recess in the hall which is set apart for tea and already been described in The Studio, so that
music, and is characterised by a certain daintiness one need not here enlarge on its special advantages,
of treatment which bears a feminine relation to Curtained off from the hall, the table is prepared
the masculine ruggedness of the hall. Viewed from the service door, near the kitchen, without
from the great bench of the hall ingle, it appears as disturbing the privacy of any other part of the home,
some delicate and dainty Early English Lady Draw back to the opposite end of the hall, and,
Chapel seen through the massive pillars of a looking between the posts which support the gallery
Norman nave. Still it does not entirely separate above, try to realise the effect of this low recess
itself from the hall or claim a definite and with its high-backed seats and simple table—an
distinct existence as a room ; and so by this union effect which is gained by what is fundamentally a
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a country house
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for its particular function in the domestic economy. both hall and bower are gainers—the hall being
Some of these may indeed be left quite open to enriched by that vista of glimmering whiteness,
the hall without any more substantial division than seen under its massive posts and beams, and the
a curtain, and so bear to it some such relation as bower becoming all the more delicate and all
the chapels in a cathedral to the main building. the more cosy in such a close companionship with
Others, from the nature of their uses, may demand the solid qualities and open spaces of the hall,
a more effectual screen from sound and sight, but At the opposite end of the hall is another recess,
these will not be as large as if they formed a unit which is set apart for meals. The title "refectory "
in a series of small rooms. And so we may welcome may sound a trifle affected, but it is given in default
the cosiness of these little retreats in contrast to of any other which so fully expresses its uses,
the open spaces of the hall on the other side Here one catches a glimpse of a table bright with
of the door. silver, glass, and flowers against the dark back-
To consider these in detail—these appendages ground of the seating which runs round three sides
to the hall—there is, first, the "ladies' bower," of the table.
the " drawing-room " as we now call it. This is a Some such arrangement of a dining-table has
recess in the hall which is set apart for tea and already been described in The Studio, so that
music, and is characterised by a certain daintiness one need not here enlarge on its special advantages,
of treatment which bears a feminine relation to Curtained off from the hall, the table is prepared
the masculine ruggedness of the hall. Viewed from the service door, near the kitchen, without
from the great bench of the hall ingle, it appears as disturbing the privacy of any other part of the home,
some delicate and dainty Early English Lady Draw back to the opposite end of the hall, and,
Chapel seen through the massive pillars of a looking between the posts which support the gallery
Norman nave. Still it does not entirely separate above, try to realise the effect of this low recess
itself from the hall or claim a definite and with its high-backed seats and simple table—an
distinct existence as a room ; and so by this union effect which is gained by what is fundamentally a
u
w
Ft'
L
a country house
m. h. baii.i.ik
scott, architect
31