Studio: international art (57.1913)

Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

page 310, where a view of the garden front of
“The Homestead” at Marlow in Buckinghamshire
is shown. The materials employed in this case
are small hand-made red bricks of uniform colour
but varying texture with a rough joint left free from
the trowel, brick mullioned windows and lead case-
ments. The roof is covered with rough hand-made
red tiles. The design in this case also is simple
and depends for its effect on the proportion of the
various gables and chimneys. The accompanying
ground-floor plan shows the simple arrangement
of the various rooms, but omits the loggia adjoin-
ing the drawing-room. On the first floor there are
five bedrooms, bathroom, and usual offices, maids’
bedrooms, housemaids’ pantries, &c. The garden
has been laid out in sympathy with the house.

Ashford Chace, of which we reproduce a drawing
in colour, was erected from designs by Messrs.
Unsworth, Son & Inigo Triggs, of Petersfield, on a
beautiful site in a fold of the wooded hills about
two miles from that pleasant Hampshire town.
It takes the place of an older house in the valley
below, the gardens of which have been adapted
and brought into relation with the new buildings by
a long alley—which unfortunately could not be
illustrated in the view. The house is approached
on the north side through a picturesque old barn,
leading into a quintagonal
court. The entrance-hall
has been planned on an
axial line, which is a con-
tinuation of the line of the
alley, connecting the old
gardens with the new
house. The arcade on the
first floor, above the patio,
which is shown in the
drawing, adjoins the nur-
series, and is intended for
the children’s open-air
playroom. A feature of this
house is the patio and
loggia, opening through a
portico from the dining
room, and available for
meals, the service being
equally well arranged for
either. There is a fountain
in the centre of the patio,
and a double flight of steps
leads down to a small en-
closed Moorish garden, to
which the overflow from the
patio fountain is carried

through a wall fountain, thence going into an incised
water maze, and on to a lily pond in the centre of the
garden. From this point the flight of steps shown
in the drawing descends. The view shows the but-
tressed retaining wall of this garden, which became
necessary owing to the distance of the old garden
from the house and the exposed position of the
new site. Mr. Unsworth made a special study of
Moorish gardens with their wind-shelters and sun-
traps with the idea of applying them to meet our
great need of being able to live more comfortably in
our gardens and enjoy an open-air life. }Ve take the
occasion to express our deep regret at his death,
which took place in the early part of October.

The great revolutionary movement in art with
which the names of William Morris and John Ruskin
will always be associated has made rapid progress
on the Continent, and especially in Germany and
Austria. In Bohemia the movement has mademuch
headway, thanks to the efforts of men who, instead of
blindly following tradition, have thought for them-
selves and recognise that there can be no true pro-
gress in architecture unless the needs of the times
are kept in view. Among those who have figured
prominently in espousing progressive ideas is Jan
Kotera. Born forty years ago at Brunn, the capital
of Moravia, he pursued his studies first at the