. Lutyens houses and gardens . toX io8 Heathcote, Ilkley emphasized the bleak qualities of the stone architecture of thecounty. To have followed a pure county tradition on what ispractically a suburban site would have meant certainly thesacrifice of an opportunity, and possibly a dreary problem was to lift the house by its own intrinsic distinc-tion above the level of the buildings of the neighbourhood,while making it sufficiently akin to them not to give a senseof eclecticism and of conscious superiority. The situationwas full of pitfalls ; but it has been solved to
. Lutyens houses and gardens . toX io8 Heathcote, Ilkley emphasized the bleak qualities of the stone architecture of thecounty. To have followed a pure county tradition on what ispractically a suburban site would have meant certainly thesacrifice of an opportunity, and possibly a dreary problem was to lift the house by its own intrinsic distinc-tion above the level of the buildings of the neighbourhood,while making it sufficiently akin to them not to give a senseof eclecticism and of conscious superiority. The situationwas full of pitfalls ; but it has been solved to would not be right to say that Sir Edwin gave to hisclient, Mr. Hemingway, an Italian villa, for there are featuresdistinctively English about it; nor can it be regardedsimply as a development of our national variant of Palla-dianism. Men like Kent and Gibbs, and later Isaac Ware,who stereotyped for us in the eighteenth century the Englishtranslations of the Italian villa, neglected one of the finestfeatures of the prototype
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