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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 168

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arden stair, without, in fact, the originality whichbrings personal emphases and modulations to give vitalityto the usual, Nashdom would have looked like an institutioninstead of a dignified country house. For a basis of comparison in this austerity of characterwe must look to Italian examples,… … < xW ci-J w a H O s 0 Q CO L.H.G. 162 Nashdom interest of the house is its uncompromising assertion of theright of whitewashed brick to a place among the materialsof right use in a great mansion no less than in a waysidecottage. It is a claim of the humble to pride of place, andthe claim must be…

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

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