. Houses for town or country. HOUSE WITH UNENCLOSED GROUNDS a dwelling is absolutely legitimate, just as the de-mand that the interior should be thoroughly de-signed is legitimate; and it is the action and reactionbetween these two demands which will most effec-tually serve to give American interiors the mixtureof propriety and distinction which they need. Atpresent distinction is too often obtained at the ex-pense of propriety and comfort, and propriety andcomfort too often obtained at the expense of dis-tinction. In order to combine distinction with pro-priety the architects will have to edu
. Houses for town or country. HOUSE WITH UNENCLOSED GROUNDS a dwelling is absolutely legitimate, just as the de-mand that the interior should be thoroughly de-signed is legitimate; and it is the action and reactionbetween these two demands which will most effec-tually serve to give American interiors the mixtureof propriety and distinction which they need. Atpresent distinction is too often obtained at the ex-pense of propriety and comfort, and propriety andcomfort too often obtained at the expense of dis-tinction. In order to combine distinction with pro-priety the architects will have to educate their clientsto add to their houses a pervasive individual andfamiliar atmosphere without interfering with theintegrity of the design; and he will also have to live 112 THE HOUSE FOR ALL THE YEAR. HOUSE WITH CROCXDS ENCLOSED up to the highest standard of professional and tech-nical rectitude. His great advantage consists orshould consist in the fact that he wishes to controlthe whole design in the interests of his client. If heswerves from this high technical and professionalideal, he will not obtain his full rights. In the East well-to-do families generally haveboth a city house and a country place, which archi-tecturally are sharplv distinguished from each other;but in the West this is much less frequently the are, of course, many fine country houses in 3 HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY the West, such as those grouped around the shoresof Lake Geneva, in Wisconsin; and particularly inChicago many of the older families occupy houses,which, although detached from their neighbours,are substantially urban rather than suburban dwell-ings. Nevertheless, on the whole, the well-to-doWestern business man, in building a new resi-dence, will probably choose a site for all the year,
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