. Lutyens houses and gardens . f the same manner are being built elsewhere. It standson a site which looks southwards down a gentle slopeand over a characteristic stretch of Cambridgeshire farmlands. When the photograph reproduced in Fig. 103 wastaken the gardens were on paper only, and the building,therefore, owes nothing in its pictures to the charm whichNature adds with a setting of tree, shrub and flower. Thehouse sits starkly on the ground, but, if it is an ordeal toshow the house without the framing which is its due, thesuccess which it achieves is at least owed to no external
. Lutyens houses and gardens . f the same manner are being built elsewhere. It standson a site which looks southwards down a gentle slopeand over a characteristic stretch of Cambridgeshire farmlands. When the photograph reproduced in Fig. 103 wastaken the gardens were on paper only, and the building,therefore, owes nothing in its pictures to the charm whichNature adds with a setting of tree, shrub and flower. Thehouse sits starkly on the ground, but, if it is an ordeal toshow the house without the framing which is its due, thesuccess which it achieves is at least owed to no external it was built Sir Edwin had done nothing more austere,or any building which relied so entirely on the qualitiesof mass, symmetry and proportion. There is nowhere anexternal moulding but in the windows and doors, and theyare of extreme simplicity, except only the subtle line ofbrickwork which marks the slight recessing of the lowerpart of the projecting wings on the north front (Fig. 103). K 146 Mount Blow, Great Shelford. O «fa wo H fa O « HZ S3 o Michelangelo on Simplicity 147
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