Studio: international art (33.1905)

Recent Designs for Domestic Architecture

version of a plan originated by a client of the archi- a vision of the beyond through pleasant vistas. In

tect's—a plan which in some respects exemplified the a country like Poland, where the severe conditions of

practical application of certain principles of house- climate make it necessary to create an interior which

planning advocated by Mr. Scott in The Studio. shall compensate for the loss of the outdoor world,

Of these principles thus exemplified one of the and where, to quote from the architect's letter of

most important is the substitution for the usual instructions, "the cosiness, serenity, and gaiety of

conception of the house as a series of isolated com- the home must make us forget the grim desolation

partments without unity and cohesion the idea of a out of doors, and all must tend to elevate the

central room from which other rooms open, so that spirit and help it to bear cheerily its winter

on entering the house one gains, as in a cathedral, captivity," such an open treatment of the interior

for instance, an impression of the interior as a is specially desirable. The severity of the climate

whole; and instead of feeling enclosed within four has influenced the plan in other ways—suggesting

remorseless walls, in all directions one may obtain the reduction of window areas and the provision of

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M. H. BAILLIE SCOTT, ARCHITECT