DOI Artikel:
Some recent designs for domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20710#0330
Recent Designs for Domestic Architecture
external woodwork being of oak left clean from the
tool. The dining-room is panelled in oak, as is also
the hall. The drawing-room has a dado of deal
painted white, and the walls above are white, with
a moulded plaster ceiling representing the signs of
the zodiac.
The hall, designed by Mr. James Gibson, and
executed by Messrs. Marsh, Jones, Cribb & Co.,
has a ceiling with beams and rafters showing, after
the type of the old English manor houses, and the
wide inglenook, with red stone mantel and open
hearth, has also been adapted as one of the best
features of the old Yorkshire type of house. The
original feature in the whole scheme is that it is
carried out, not, as one usually expects in work of
this kind, in oak, but in mahogany, which is relieved
with a little simple inlay in ebony and box, and
slightly polished. The walls are divided by means
of pilasters, the caps of which are inlaid with the
white rose of Yorkshire ; and this rose has been
taken as the motif throughout the room, appearing
on the embroidered cloth wall-panels and on the
carpet (which is a hand-tufted plain centre, with
the Tudor rose and briar-stem forming the border),
and also in the furniture, which has been designed
on simple lines. To further carry out this idea of
the Yorkshire rose in the frieze, which is composed
of mahogany laths on a white plaster ground (after
the type of the half-timbered work), there have
been introduced over the inglenook, and at the
opposite end of the room, two painted panels illus-
trating the beginning and the end of the Wars of
the Roses; the first depicting The Quarrel in the
Temple Gardens, and the other The Battle of Bos-
worth Field. A feature in this room are two book-
case fittings at the sides of the window, and
underneath the window is placed a sofa, with
brackets or tables at the side to support a lamp,
so making a comfortable or cosy seat for the
reader. All the electric fittings and mounts on
the furniture are in a very low tone of oxidised
silver, almost a dull pewter colour.
The House in Polatid, designed by Mr. Baillie
Scott, here illustrated, represents a slightly modified
DESIGNED BY JAMES GIBSON
EXECUTED BY MESSRS. MARSH, JONES, CRIBB & CO.
3T3
external woodwork being of oak left clean from the
tool. The dining-room is panelled in oak, as is also
the hall. The drawing-room has a dado of deal
painted white, and the walls above are white, with
a moulded plaster ceiling representing the signs of
the zodiac.
The hall, designed by Mr. James Gibson, and
executed by Messrs. Marsh, Jones, Cribb & Co.,
has a ceiling with beams and rafters showing, after
the type of the old English manor houses, and the
wide inglenook, with red stone mantel and open
hearth, has also been adapted as one of the best
features of the old Yorkshire type of house. The
original feature in the whole scheme is that it is
carried out, not, as one usually expects in work of
this kind, in oak, but in mahogany, which is relieved
with a little simple inlay in ebony and box, and
slightly polished. The walls are divided by means
of pilasters, the caps of which are inlaid with the
white rose of Yorkshire ; and this rose has been
taken as the motif throughout the room, appearing
on the embroidered cloth wall-panels and on the
carpet (which is a hand-tufted plain centre, with
the Tudor rose and briar-stem forming the border),
and also in the furniture, which has been designed
on simple lines. To further carry out this idea of
the Yorkshire rose in the frieze, which is composed
of mahogany laths on a white plaster ground (after
the type of the half-timbered work), there have
been introduced over the inglenook, and at the
opposite end of the room, two painted panels illus-
trating the beginning and the end of the Wars of
the Roses; the first depicting The Quarrel in the
Temple Gardens, and the other The Battle of Bos-
worth Field. A feature in this room are two book-
case fittings at the sides of the window, and
underneath the window is placed a sofa, with
brackets or tables at the side to support a lamp,
so making a comfortable or cosy seat for the
reader. All the electric fittings and mounts on
the furniture are in a very low tone of oxidised
silver, almost a dull pewter colour.
The House in Polatid, designed by Mr. Baillie
Scott, here illustrated, represents a slightly modified
DESIGNED BY JAMES GIBSON
EXECUTED BY MESSRS. MARSH, JONES, CRIBB & CO.
3T3