Studio: international art (69.1916)

Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

time to time, and the architect's scope had been that account. The characteristics of the proposed
indicated also by numerous illustrations. Some of building and the surrounding garden are suggested
these were from photographs of executed work, with pleasant simplicity and with the dignity due
and others represented designs for houses and to so happy an essay in domestic architecture,
gardens of a kind which made an instant appeal -

by their charm and practical beauty. In expressing A timely suggestion has been made by the
his ideas Mr. Mallows was particularly successful Ministry of Munitions that the public should take
with his pencil, and by this means alone contri- advantage of the suspension of all building opera-
buted much to the value and interest of modern tions save those of a minor kind, which has ensued
art. In his professional work he was helped very from the Order in Council of last July, to get plans
much by his powers of
expression, and while it was
generally in black-and-white
that he gave rein to his
thoughts, he would often
employ colour to indicate
the full intentions of his
design : the possibilities of
house-building were thus
presented to clients in a way
which never failed to attract
attention. Among such
water-colour' drawings was
the one reproduced as a
plate in this issue. It is
more elaborate than usual,

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" ROYCROFT," BROUGHTY FERRY
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MACLAREN SONS AND SOUTAR, ARCHITECTS