American country houses of to-day; an illustrated account of some excellent houses built and gardens planted during the last few years, showing unmistakable influence of the modern trend in ideals architectural (1915)
Howe, Samuel, 1854- · New York Architectural Book Pub. Co. P. Wenzel and M. Krakow · leaf 199
a ring roinid the city, a ring of rich, low-tonedred, buff, dull yellow or orange. At the moment there are houses of thistype, completed or under way, after the fashion of the Florentine palacesin the great century of the Henaissance. In plan and in general detail theyresemble greatly the Genoese… … 176 THE WASHINTiTON HOUSE 01 M\\. HKNUV WHITK 177 Peruzzi, Saiiinichcle, Sansovino, Palladio, and Alichatl Aiifrclo. And toKoine, the Eternal City, we look because of its majestic scale, the bif>nessof her huldin^s, the remarkable reticetiee and sobriety of their outlines.Here was—and many of…
Architecture, Domestic · Landscape gardening
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