DOI Heft:
No. 112 (July, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Some recent English designs for domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19876#0126
Recent Domestic Architecture
ornament of any kind. A simple structure of
bricks and red tiles, excellently planned and pro-
portioned, was satisfying and restful to the eye,
and its rooms were admirably enriched with a few
choice panels and decorations by Charpentier,
La Touche, and other leading French artists. Of
cheap, machine-made ornament not a bit was to
be seen in any part of the house.
Speaking generally, the followers ot the artistic
movement in England appear to have more dis-
cretion than is met with elsewhere. Even in the
work of students there is but little that sets one think-
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ing of those fireworks of eccentricity, the squibs
and crackers of which delight a good many eyes
on the Continent. England, however, might do
better if her art-workers, while retaining their
moderation, could be persuaded to adopt a more
adventurous policy ; for among her architects there
is still a deplorable tendency to fashion new houses
out of the relics or the ruins of old styles. It is
an easy thing to do, and its devotees find it quite
satisfying; indeed, those who are accustomed to
make their livelihood out of borrowed ideas are
invariably self-contented; they feel sure of their
ornament of any kind. A simple structure of
bricks and red tiles, excellently planned and pro-
portioned, was satisfying and restful to the eye,
and its rooms were admirably enriched with a few
choice panels and decorations by Charpentier,
La Touche, and other leading French artists. Of
cheap, machine-made ornament not a bit was to
be seen in any part of the house.
Speaking generally, the followers ot the artistic
movement in England appear to have more dis-
cretion than is met with elsewhere. Even in the
work of students there is but little that sets one think-
114
ing of those fireworks of eccentricity, the squibs
and crackers of which delight a good many eyes
on the Continent. England, however, might do
better if her art-workers, while retaining their
moderation, could be persuaded to adopt a more
adventurous policy ; for among her architects there
is still a deplorable tendency to fashion new houses
out of the relics or the ruins of old styles. It is
an easy thing to do, and its devotees find it quite
satisfying; indeed, those who are accustomed to
make their livelihood out of borrowed ideas are
invariably self-contented; they feel sure of their