DOI Heft:
No. 228 (March 1912)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0152
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
“the white house,” shiplake, oxon
over the entrance and over the south terrace are
formed with reinforced concrete and iron railings.
The entrance consists of folding glass doors that
can in fine weather be opened the full extent of the
entrance hall. The window over the balcony is
treated in the same way exactly. The whole house
is arranged to give as much light and air as possible.
French windows are in all
the ground-floor rooms and
lead on to the terrace. All
the rooms are finished
with rough plaster and
white woodwork and maple
floors. A feature of the
dining-room is the fire-
place, which is of white
painted wood with painted
decoration, the tiles being
black-brown alternating
with white.
The two illustrations
on the opposite page and
the one on page 134 are
designs by a young lady
architect of Swedish
nationality, Miss Ester
Claesson of Stockholm,wrho,
after studying in Vienna,
went through a course of
practical training at the
132
Horticultural High School
in Copenhagen, and after-
wards spent a period of
two years in the atelier of
the late Professor Josef
Olbrich at Darmstadt,
subsequently joining Pro-
fessor Paul Schultze-
Naumburg at Saaleck.
Olbrich, whose early death
was a great loss to the
forces of progress in
German architecture and
applied art, exercised a
marked influence on the
modern school of garden-
designing in Germany, par-
ticularly as regards the
regularity of garden
schemes, the arrangement
of terraces, walls, and walks
-—in short, the utilisation
of the natural resources of
a given site; and this in-
fluence shows itself in the designs of his pupil.
Miss Claesson’s perspectives testify to a consider-
able talent for drawing, and the well-thought-out
treatment of detail which we find in her designs
shows that she has made a serious study of this
department of architecture, to which of late years
much attention has been paid in Germany.
“THE WHITE HOUSE,” SHIPLAKE : THE WATER GARDEN
DESIGNED BY GEORGE WALTON
GEORGE WALTON, ARCHITECT
“the white house,” shiplake, oxon
over the entrance and over the south terrace are
formed with reinforced concrete and iron railings.
The entrance consists of folding glass doors that
can in fine weather be opened the full extent of the
entrance hall. The window over the balcony is
treated in the same way exactly. The whole house
is arranged to give as much light and air as possible.
French windows are in all
the ground-floor rooms and
lead on to the terrace. All
the rooms are finished
with rough plaster and
white woodwork and maple
floors. A feature of the
dining-room is the fire-
place, which is of white
painted wood with painted
decoration, the tiles being
black-brown alternating
with white.
The two illustrations
on the opposite page and
the one on page 134 are
designs by a young lady
architect of Swedish
nationality, Miss Ester
Claesson of Stockholm,wrho,
after studying in Vienna,
went through a course of
practical training at the
132
Horticultural High School
in Copenhagen, and after-
wards spent a period of
two years in the atelier of
the late Professor Josef
Olbrich at Darmstadt,
subsequently joining Pro-
fessor Paul Schultze-
Naumburg at Saaleck.
Olbrich, whose early death
was a great loss to the
forces of progress in
German architecture and
applied art, exercised a
marked influence on the
modern school of garden-
designing in Germany, par-
ticularly as regards the
regularity of garden
schemes, the arrangement
of terraces, walls, and walks
-—in short, the utilisation
of the natural resources of
a given site; and this in-
fluence shows itself in the designs of his pupil.
Miss Claesson’s perspectives testify to a consider-
able talent for drawing, and the well-thought-out
treatment of detail which we find in her designs
shows that she has made a serious study of this
department of architecture, to which of late years
much attention has been paid in Germany.
“THE WHITE HOUSE,” SHIPLAKE : THE WATER GARDEN
DESIGNED BY GEORGE WALTON
GEORGE WALTON, ARCHITECT