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Company StUCCO^PLABASE 102 Este Avenue Cincinnati, O. Factories: Cincinnati, Ohio, and Ottawa, Canada New York City Office: 2848 Grand Central Terminal HMBHBBMWraillBtlW^ THE ARCH EC, RE Editor: MICHAEL A. MIKKELSEN Contributing Editor: HERBERT CROLY Business Manager: J. A. OAKLEY PAGE COVER Water Color By Jack Manley Rose. m THE DESIGN OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE 243 By William Lawrence Bottomley. I THE INTERIOR OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE - 275 By Amy Richards Colton and Arthur Willis Colton. THE GARDEN OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE 295 By William F. Lamb. v*> Yearly Subscription: United States, $3.00; Foreign, $4.00; Single Copies, 35 cents. Copyright, 1021, by The Architectural Record Co. All rights reserved. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE ARCHITECTURAL RECORD COMPANY 115-119 WEST FORTIETH STREET. NEW YORK 8. Pres. W. D. Vice-Pres.rtJB. Ei. Yl T. MOBGAN, HADSKLL, E. S.o. DODGE.uuuurj, Vlce-Pres.-TVS. J. W. FBANK,JTtl.ajS.Ii., Sec'y-TreM.86C JT-TTeM. 5f:^::^f^::^'^'^::^!;^'?;!^;;^^V^' ' ' v** >"s. v.^< % ^ k *,. **-! 1 A. ^*i<. i^i 'A-^ik !>? /iTw*.i 1 v*?iiK:*-'i DOORWAY "THE CHATEAU," RESIDENCE OF MRS. M. S. MUCHMORE, HOLLYWOOD, CAL. PIERPONT & WALTER S. DAVIS, ARCHITECTS. THE ;: H ARCHITECTVRAL RECORD VOLVME L NVMBER IV OCTOBER, 1921 x~ . j ^~\ s~-^j f> Ike J\OUSQ of Country -X x ^_X ^ ^-William the population of the oped an increasingly important branch of country is moving into the town the architectural profession. WHILEat such a rate as to alarm econo- The pleasures of open air life and in- mists, there is at the same time a formal treatments of the interior have great counter-movement of city dwellers even had an effect on the planning and toward the country. More and more are interior decoration of city houses, and we people of intelligence and means living in find now that roof gardens, loggias and the country. Every year finds town terraces are being used in a way never before seen in this houses and apartments remaining closed country. Thus this trend for makes the for a longer period, and the pleasures of country living study of the country house necessary for all year round or nearly year round country architects, not only for specialists in coun- life take hold of an increasing number of try houses, but for all those who design dwellers. Thus the movement back city residences. All this may have been true to life those who want the country by a year ago. but it has been made more comforts, convenience and of luxury city vitally true today on account of the drop the of living, coupled with improvement in building prices and the revival in resi- taste in architectural design, has devel- dence building. 243 CR.OUN D FLOf)K PLAN LATMRor BROWN C 5 (^ 5T JA..",3 o, :> 5~! /y- r-T -T^ T /tr.*:^^J^' j ^ This back to the country movement is tiful silhouette, that showed the skill bred a very healthy tendency in our life today. from centuries of traditions, "Say, ain't The pleasures of outdoor exercise and that the gosh durndest looking tree"? outdoor living and the greater simplicity An eminently respectable looking party of and informality of country life are show- people, not distinguished looking but well ing their effect in all classes. The pic- dressed, comfortable, out to enjoy them- tures of the houses which are published selves. A whole chapter of "Main Street" this year compare most favorably with was summed up in a single line. the previous work of the architects and There are necessarily only a few great decorators in this country, and eloquently works of art produced every year. Even illustrate the sanity and the pleasures of at the time of greatest artistic achieve- this mode of life. ment in house building, as for instance, It is curious to think that there is a great the Renaissance in Italy, under the majority of people who know practically Medici, the Sforzas and the Borgias, or nothing about artistic things, who never in France from the time of Francis the read anything but some light magazine First through the reigns of the Bourbons, or novel, whose houses are bought from only a couple of hundred houses were a speculative builder, whose furniture is produced of pre-eminent importance and purchased at a department store. The beauty. At these times there existed a whole setting of their lives is built up of great public taste, a taste ^f not positively things bought from stock and put to- developed, at least reflected to a great gether without thought. Their chief grat- degree in all classes. The artisans were ification in life is spending money on artists, men trained in design, with fine motors, on restaurants and theatres. They traditions of composition and logical con- like and appreciate a fine public room. struction, a few with great imagination. They like the intellectual stimulus of a In Spain the guild of carpenters pro- well designed interior, where some one duced a large number of wood ceilings, else has given time and thought to the carved, painted and gilt, the finest, the creation of a new and delightful setting. most beautiful ceilings of their kind that They like to have something to talk about have ever been done. A wealth of imagi- as they dine or dance. The other night, nation is shown in the detail, and the sitting in the Palais Royal, I heard a man beauty of composition has never been sur- say at an adjoining table, after looking passed. Imagine going to the best car- at a decorative Japanese tree, trained and penter in a small city today and commis- dwarfed until it made an exotic but beau- sioning him to do a carved and painted k- . Qfc<< 0<^PH &; S3 O Sag WHOM RESIDENCE OF LATHROP BROWN, ESQ.,C.3\J., ST. JAMES, LONG ISLAND, N. Y. PEA- ( BODY. WILSON & BROWN, ARCHITECTSiCTS. \ 246 BASEMENT AND MEZZANINE FLOOR PLANS, RESIDENCE OF LATHROP BROWN, ESQ,> ST. JAMES, LONG ISLAND, N. Y. Peabody, Wilson & Brown, Architects. and gilt ceiling. The idea would be comic be impossible to make it stand up. They if it were not so pathetic. You might get had never seen or heard of such a thing, workmanship of good quality, but no idea but as the work went on they seemed very of design, a case of the flesh being will- interested. I was extremely pleased some ing but the spirit being weak. weeks after to have the different masons It is unfortunate for the community speak about it again, individually bring- that workmen think and know as a gen- ing up the subject and saying what a eral rule only their work and very little wonderful piece of work it was. "That's about design. The two functions have the greatest stunt I ever seen," said the become separated. I have the impression Foreman. One of them even took some that the labor unions are interested only small pots with plants growing in them in the economic advantages of their mem- and stood them along the top of the wall. bers, at best. The men individually, I They made suggestions as to how to fin- have found, are interested and even en- ish the surface of the brick with a thin thusiastic about a new and interesting pat- wash of cement before painting it and tern to be worked out. Recently I de- evidently were very much impressed by signed a pierced brick wall with each the simple trick that has been used abroad panel worked out in a different pattern. for years. The men who built it thought it would The traditions of the XVIII and XIX 247 THE ARCHITECTURAL RECORD. centuries were for great perfection of in the house for Mr. Lathrop M. Brown finish, crispness of drawing, of moulding at St. James, Long Island. The plan and smoothness of wall for the best char- is admirably arranged. A great cen- acter of work. Now, we in this country tral mass contains the principal rooms are beginning to like less formality in of two stories and a high roof, with design for the smaller buildings and two lower wings connected by curved houses. The efforts of our forefathers for arcades forming a porch on one side and smoothness and perfection of execution a pantry on the other. It is well worth have developed wonderful tools and noting that the rooms are finely arranged, methods. It is easy for any plasterer now all the parts well balanced and propor- with his trowel and float, straight edge and tioned, the doors and windows beautifully plumb, to get an absolutely smooth wall.