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Lutyens houses and gardens (1921)

Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930 · London, Offices of "Country life", ltd. [etc.]; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 150

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e garden, which stretchesaway from the new west front. This elevation, seen in partto the left of the photograph in Fig. 102, is gravely elegant.The general character of the old house is maintained, thekeystones being based on the old work, but improved intheir proportion. Facing it from the midst… … 144 Temple Dinsley divided by a pillared loggia, and the ground rises into alawn flanked by raised terraces, which turn into paths underthe trees and bring us to the upper pool. Fig. 102 showsthe south-west corner clearly mirrored in it, and the gracefullead vases crowning the angles. Some of these…

Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944 · Architecture, Domestic · Gardens

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