Studio: international art (38.1906)

Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

“THE VIEW,” SWANAGE (See page jo) MESSRS. BREWERTON & SHEPHERD, ARCHITECTS

and to consider the plan of the house illustrated.
It will be noted that it consists of a group ot
low-lying buildings surrounding and enclosing a
central court. It is a time-honoured type of plan,
difficult to improve on, both practically and artisti-
cally. Practically, it makes for economy by bringing
the stables and other outbuildings under the same
general roof plan; and artistically, the whole
scheme thus presents a unity of effect, while the
arrangement of the approaches through covered
ways into the central court gives an opportunity
for that conjunction of light and shade in which
one catches glimpses of the light beyond the
immediate shade. This
arrangement conveys inevi-
tably the idea of hope to
the mind. Symbolism in
art may be roughly divided
into two classes: that which
demands some literary
knowledge and which is
more or less arbitrary, such
as that expressed by a lan-
guage of flowers, or by that
elaborate system under-
stood by the Japanese, or
else it may be, as in this
case, a natural symbolism
which the uninitiated can
feel and understand.

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“ Entering the inner court by the central covered
way, one crosses to the front entrance by the little
paved path set in a pattern of cobble stones. Here
a broad and low corridor serves to connect the
three main apartments which form the south front,
and which, communicating with wide doorways,
form a spacious interior with sheltered access to
the garden at each end through the covered
verandahs, so arranged to leave the south windows
unshaded. The study faces west and is sufficiently
isolated to secure privacy and quiet, while the
eastern wing contains the kitchen premises. The
upper floor contains seven bedrooms and bathroom.

PI.AX OK “THE VIEW,” SWANAGE

MESSRS. BREWERTON &
SHEPHERD, ARCHITECTS