Studio: international art (22.1901)

Some Modern Cottages.

beauty as well as for use, so
that the signs of personal activity
which give charm to an old
cottage will not be lacking,
though they must perforce be
different in character. Ma-
chinery, the most unintelligently
abused ot all inventions, has
yet to take its right place among
us, not supplanting but reliev-
ing personal labour, and giving
leisure for the development of
interesting handicrafts. To re-
turn, in short, to simplicity of
life, without being betrayed into
primitive discomfort, is one of
the problems of the hour, alike
for the builder and the occupier
of the home.

workman' s cottage f. w. troup, architect _,, . ,. . , ,

I he tuture lies with the
architect who can treat this

may yet have to go the way of the dying copper problem with the genius which has been defined

and the extinct vat. But the task of domestic as " sanctified" common sense.

architecture is to fulfil these new require- Esther Wood.

first-floor im.an 01' workman s (Trl't ac, e f. w. troup. architect

end elevation of
workman's cottage

f. w. troup. architect

ments without losing
in artistic effect; to
make these changed
and often unpromising

conditions serve for ground-plan of workman's cottage f. w. troup, architect

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