DOI article:
Recent designs in domestic architecture
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Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
HOUSE AT GRAIL, FIFESHIRE : VIEW OF NORTH-WEST FRONT.
THOMS AND WILKIE, FF.R.I.B.A., ARCHITECTS
( Photo: T. Lewis Ltd.)
The interior views of Ravenseourt, Thornton
Hall, designed by Mr. Robert Whyte, depicted
work of considerable merit. Although not asso-
ciated with domestic architecture, the new choir-
stalls, organ-case, and east-end screen for Dunblane
Cathedral, shown in the frame of photographs
exhibited by Sir Robert Lorimer, revealed a high
standard of attainment. This well-known archi-
tect has evidently a marked preference for a com-
plex design, and his capability is well evidenced in
his rendering of the motif lor the choir-stalls.
make room for a winter garden, which would have
a wooden ceiling; and the courtyard was cut off
for the purpose of making a valet’s bedroom. On
the left wing a business-room and drawing-room
with wood ceiling have been arranged; and in
the right wing is a bedroom, dressing and bath-
room, valet’s bedroom, and sitting-room. A word
of praise is due for the excellent colouring treat-
ment shown in the drawings.
“LONDON, PAST AND PRESENT.”
The Special Winter Number of The Studio will
form a companion volume to the recently published
Autumn Number, “Paris, Past and Present,”
which met with such success. Numerous books
on London have been published from time to
time, but the Editor proposes to deal with the
subject in a unique and interesting manner. In
the preparation of the work he is receiving the
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HOUSE AT GRAIL, FIFESHIRE : VIEW OF NORTH-WEST FRONT.
THOMS AND WILKIE, FF.R.I.B.A., ARCHITECTS
( Photo: T. Lewis Ltd.)
The interior views of Ravenseourt, Thornton
Hall, designed by Mr. Robert Whyte, depicted
work of considerable merit. Although not asso-
ciated with domestic architecture, the new choir-
stalls, organ-case, and east-end screen for Dunblane
Cathedral, shown in the frame of photographs
exhibited by Sir Robert Lorimer, revealed a high
standard of attainment. This well-known archi-
tect has evidently a marked preference for a com-
plex design, and his capability is well evidenced in
his rendering of the motif lor the choir-stalls.
make room for a winter garden, which would have
a wooden ceiling; and the courtyard was cut off
for the purpose of making a valet’s bedroom. On
the left wing a business-room and drawing-room
with wood ceiling have been arranged; and in
the right wing is a bedroom, dressing and bath-
room, valet’s bedroom, and sitting-room. A word
of praise is due for the excellent colouring treat-
ment shown in the drawings.
“LONDON, PAST AND PRESENT.”
The Special Winter Number of The Studio will
form a companion volume to the recently published
Autumn Number, “Paris, Past and Present,”
which met with such success. Numerous books
on London have been published from time to
time, but the Editor proposes to deal with the
subject in a unique and interesting manner. In
the preparation of the work he is receiving the
275