Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York, Duffield & Company · leaf 80
e ofwhich is less spectacular and more domestic and sub-stantial ; but these opportunities betray just as plainlythe pre-occupation of the owner and the architect.The grounds are generally slurred. The garden andthe other landscape accessories are inadequate to thescale of the house. The buildings… … HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY sense from these estates, as one does from the Italianvillas and their gardens or from the English countrymansions, that the architecture belongs to the land-scape. In the case of the Italian villas, their propri-ety as country houses is fundamentally a matter…
Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration
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