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Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

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COUNTRY HOUSE IN BOHEMIA DESIGNED BY FRANZ KRASNY, ARCHITECT

ture. The design of this little country house in plan of the house is as nearly as possible square,

Bohemia is in sympathy with the style of archi- the length of the sides being approximately thirty-

tecture indigenous to a country peopled by a six feet. It is arranged in two stories, the lower

Slav race and permeated by Slav traditions. The one containing a large sitting-room (velkd sednice)

locality in which the house has been built is full of used as a general living-room, a smaller one com-

romantic associations, and is also interesting as municating with it (maid sednice), a kitchen (kuchyne)

having been the headquarters of the Hussite and other offices, the stove being built in the wall

leader Ziska. The house stands in close proximity dividing the kitchen from the big living-room,

to the river, the site being on a hill some hundred and thus doing double duty ; while the upper

and fifty feet above it. Simplicity is the keynote story is reserved for sleeping apartments, bath-

of the design, both without and within. The wood room, &c. The principal rooms have as usual

used in the construction of the gables is of local been placed on the sunny side of the house,

origin, the district being one abounding in timber, The architect, Franz Krasny, is a Czech but prac-

and old tiles have been used for the roof. The tises in Vienna.