. Lutyens houses and gardens . - > HX & O :-« pq M Barton St. Mary 101. Q wa H HCO OH 102 Plans, Balanced and Otherwise comfort than houses designed in a graver manner. AsVivian says in that storehouse of paradoxes, The Decayof Lying, If Nature had been comfortable, mankindwould never have invented architecture, and I preferhouses to the open air. In a house we all feel of the properproportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashionedfor our use and our pleasure. It is more true of a housedesigned on an unsymmetrical plan than of one that isplanned to preserve a classical balance, that
. Lutyens houses and gardens . - > HX & O :-« pq M Barton St. Mary 101. Q wa H HCO OH 102 Plans, Balanced and Otherwise comfort than houses designed in a graver manner. AsVivian says in that storehouse of paradoxes, The Decayof Lying, If Nature had been comfortable, mankindwould never have invented architecture, and I preferhouses to the open air. In a house we all feel of the properproportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashionedfor our use and our pleasure. It is more true of a housedesigned on an unsymmetrical plan than of one that isplanned to preserve a classical balance, that every detailof arrangement can be made subject to personal symmetrioal plan may demand some sacrifices of pre-conceived ideas as to the size and shape of certain may be difficult, for example, to vary the heights ofrooms on the same floor without disturbing the proportionsand arrangement of the window openings. In a houseof the less constrained type of Barton St. Maty such varia-tions can be made the basis of attractive features thatwill add to the inte
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