DOI Heft:
No. 165 (December, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0258
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
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village hall and cottage at west mill, herts charles spooner, architect
of furniture. It invariably fulfils its purpose, of means to an end, and the work he has dqne at
is exquisite in proportion and refinement, and, the bench.
without any exception, always put together in the "Mr. Ruskin, lecturing (in 1859) on 'Modern
most direct and satisfactory manner. The success Manufacture and Design,' said that 'The principles
he has achieved in furniture design is due to his on which you work are likely to be false in propor-
wide knowledge of tradition, his study of modern tion as they are narrow, true only as they are
needs, his originality and thoughtful consideration founded on a perception of the connection of all
branches of art with each
other'; or, again, as he
says in another part of his
. lecture, 'you must either
help your surroundings or
spoil them.' In every phase
of Mr. Spooner's work, in
his houses and cottages, his
furniture and church archi-
tecture, from the smallest
to the largest detail, this
nnsTFLOORPJAN perception of unity is never
lost. In this respect how
GtsovNDPa/fOF,riiiACEmiMA//0 cottage. entirely admirable and
plan of village hall and cottage charles spooner, architect Satisfactory is hlS Cottage
at west mill, herts at Bury, in Sussex. Sound
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t
k'Wm
village hall and cottage at west mill, herts charles spooner, architect
of furniture. It invariably fulfils its purpose, of means to an end, and the work he has dqne at
is exquisite in proportion and refinement, and, the bench.
without any exception, always put together in the "Mr. Ruskin, lecturing (in 1859) on 'Modern
most direct and satisfactory manner. The success Manufacture and Design,' said that 'The principles
he has achieved in furniture design is due to his on which you work are likely to be false in propor-
wide knowledge of tradition, his study of modern tion as they are narrow, true only as they are
needs, his originality and thoughtful consideration founded on a perception of the connection of all
branches of art with each
other'; or, again, as he
says in another part of his
. lecture, 'you must either
help your surroundings or
spoil them.' In every phase
of Mr. Spooner's work, in
his houses and cottages, his
furniture and church archi-
tecture, from the smallest
to the largest detail, this
nnsTFLOORPJAN perception of unity is never
lost. In this respect how
GtsovNDPa/fOF,riiiACEmiMA//0 cottage. entirely admirable and
plan of village hall and cottage charles spooner, architect Satisfactory is hlS Cottage
at west mill, herts at Bury, in Sussex. Sound
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