. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . were extended out of all proportion, and the landscape gardener began towork at cross purposes with the architect. Formal villas lost caste. Mean-while there had been another invasion of Italy by barbarians, this timeinartistic Britishers, who bought up the Renaissance villas and improved. uniting Country rfect Harmony The Architect and Engineer V> them, sodding the parterres and cutting them with paths and flower beds,trimming away the pleached alleys and grottoes, transplanting the lemontrees from their earthen vases into th
. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . were extended out of all proportion, and the landscape gardener began towork at cross purposes with the architect. Formal villas lost caste. Mean-while there had been another invasion of Italy by barbarians, this timeinartistic Britishers, who bought up the Renaissance villas and improved. uniting Country rfect Harmony The Architect and Engineer V> them, sodding the parterres and cutting them with paths and flower beds,trimming away the pleached alleys and grottoes, transplanting the lemontrees from their earthen vases into the ground. The Italian villas onesees today in Italy arc a sort of modified British edition. In America the Italian villa has also undergone changes. Here thereis a greater Freedom, perhaps, though not less of beauty, so long as tin-spirit of harmony between house and garden prevails. Some builders havemade the mistake i thinking they have achieved an Italian villa when theyhave built a stucco house n two or three town lots, and have scattover the lawn some hits of cheap Italian statuary, a few cracked urns , a marble bench from an old Italian garden. These have some ofthe letters hut none of the spirit .if the classic villa. But within a decade or so there have been built some verj charmingItalian villas, which have all of the
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