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Identifier: lutyenshousesga00weav (find matches)
Title: Lutyens houses and gardens
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930
Subjects: Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944 Architecture, Domestic Gardens
Publisher: London, Offices of "Country life", ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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6.—Plans of the Right Hon. Reginald McKennas House in South Square,l.h.g. B i8 Town Houses and mind, repose will have been secured at too heavy aprice. Some of the Lutyens town houses in Westminster goperilously near dulness, and are saved only by a Tightnessof proportion which has no support from any other qualitiessave pleasant colour and texture. The plans of the RightHon. Reginald McKennas house (Fig. 6) show what afresh mind Sir Edwin brings to so restricted a problem as
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7.—No. 36 South Square, Westminster. Hampstead Garden Suburb 19 the disposition of the rooms in a town house, and the porchof No. 7 St. Jamess Square, his handling of an ordinaryand traditional composition (Fig. 8). In the Chelsea gardenof the late Sir Hugh Lane (Fig. 9) he has by the simpleelements of screen, steps, paving and statues given apersonal character to a plain oblong patch of ground. Amongst many London interiors the cedar-lmed librarydesigned for Viscount Haldane (Fig. 10) and Lady Hornerslibrary in Lower Berkeley Street (Fig. 12) are very attractive. Sir Edwins most notable contribution to London archi-tecture is, however, suburban rather than urban. He wasentrusted with the general plan of the Central Square atthe Hampstead Garden Suburb including the AnglicanChurch, the Free Church, the Institute and the enclosinggroup of houses, some of which appear in Fig. II. An architects judgment and sympathy as well as hisknowledge may fairly be judged by his attitude to the wo

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