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DOI Artikel:Oliver, Maude I. G.: Belgian art at the St. Louis exhibition
DOI Artikel:Some recent designs for domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20711#0167
Recent Designs for Domestic Architecttire
SOME RECENT
DESIGNS FOR
DOMEST IC
ARCHITECTURE.
We give this month illus-
trations of the entrance
front, the garden front, and
a side view of JVorney,
Skackleford, near Godalm-
ing, a house designed by
Mr. C. F. A. Voysey for
the Rev. Canon Grane.
The photographs from
which the reproductions
were made were taken
before the house was en-
tirely completed. It is now
covered with creepers, and
the gardens and grounds,
lodge at " NO'rney," shack l.eford c f. a. voysey, architect , . , j c u .-
which extend for about
twenty acres, are elaborately
suggestive of Byzantine severity, is yet very real, laid out and beautifully wooded. The materials
very modern and very devotional in thought. It employed for the house are brick and cement
shows the kneeling form of a young woman, her rough-cast, with Westmorland green slate for the
hands clasped at her throat, her head inclined, her roof and oak joinery inside. The casements are
countenance fervid with intensity. For frank, in iron, and Monks Park stone has been used for
honest portraiture, there can be no more excellent the window dressings and Portland stone for the
specimen than the bust of the sculptor Dillens, by porch, chimney caps, and all exposed places. An
Jules Lagae, and for a sweet alluring lyric no more illustration is also given of the entrance lodge,
delightful subject could be
given than the Angel fo
Ho?ne, by the same artist.
This concerted effort ..■
on the part of individual ^ ^=*=31V
artists to follow to a con- , .
elusion the art questions \ dfEf |j
of the day is bound to - ^~*J: _ 1 E^jtmSM
place Belgium in a con- ,,|| l LdgflK&SBK
spicuous position among ^ (■■•■•■JHi * )BKnP^^9
her sister nations in the ^mamm***^^^^™** r—^U Tflfii^aMl
fi Id. ^ A d, 'f h w \ ^ ^^^^^^^88^^^
cerity that characterised PHML i 1 ) iSm ** ■" J», '.^-rtt^B^^HBI
the early flemish school, HH^^H'r -
movement, who have con- ^^^^^BH^^ im i'1'1 ^^^^^^ ^
well feel that they had met
with gratifying results. " norney," shackleford c. f. a. voysey, architect
151
SOME RECENT
DESIGNS FOR
DOMEST IC
ARCHITECTURE.
We give this month illus-
trations of the entrance
front, the garden front, and
a side view of JVorney,
Skackleford, near Godalm-
ing, a house designed by
Mr. C. F. A. Voysey for
the Rev. Canon Grane.
The photographs from
which the reproductions
were made were taken
before the house was en-
tirely completed. It is now
covered with creepers, and
the gardens and grounds,
lodge at " NO'rney," shack l.eford c f. a. voysey, architect , . , j c u .-
which extend for about
twenty acres, are elaborately
suggestive of Byzantine severity, is yet very real, laid out and beautifully wooded. The materials
very modern and very devotional in thought. It employed for the house are brick and cement
shows the kneeling form of a young woman, her rough-cast, with Westmorland green slate for the
hands clasped at her throat, her head inclined, her roof and oak joinery inside. The casements are
countenance fervid with intensity. For frank, in iron, and Monks Park stone has been used for
honest portraiture, there can be no more excellent the window dressings and Portland stone for the
specimen than the bust of the sculptor Dillens, by porch, chimney caps, and all exposed places. An
Jules Lagae, and for a sweet alluring lyric no more illustration is also given of the entrance lodge,
delightful subject could be
given than the Angel fo
Ho?ne, by the same artist.
This concerted effort ..■
on the part of individual ^ ^=*=31V
artists to follow to a con- , .
elusion the art questions \ dfEf |j
of the day is bound to - ^~*J: _ 1 E^jtmSM
place Belgium in a con- ,,|| l LdgflK&SBK
spicuous position among ^ (■■•■•■JHi * )BKnP^^9
her sister nations in the ^mamm***^^^^™** r—^U Tflfii^aMl
fi Id. ^ A d, 'f h w \ ^ ^^^^^^^88^^^
cerity that characterised PHML i 1 ) iSm ** ■" J», '.^-rtt^B^^HBI
the early flemish school, HH^^H'r -
movement, who have con- ^^^^^BH^^ im i'1'1 ^^^^^^ ^
well feel that they had met
with gratifying results. " norney," shackleford c. f. a. voysey, architect
151