The Country Gcntlcmaiis Magazine 



569 



GARDEN ARCHITECTURE. 



V. SHADES FOR GARDEN SEATS, 



AT page 92 of the present volume we 

 gave two designs for shades for garden 

 seats of a very ingenious construction, the 



Fig. I. 



invention of Mr Scowan. We give now a 

 third design differing in form from the others. 

 For the mode of construction, the reader is 

 referred to the previous article. 



VI. DESIGN FOR A GARDEN KIOSK, 



The visitor to the Paris Exhibition of 

 1867, and to that which is but recently closed 

 at Havre, must have noticed the peculiarity 

 in the wood work of the various departments 

 stalls, divisions, &c. ) that peculiarity being 

 the elaborate way in which it was ornamented 

 with cut out portions. This mode of orna- 

 menting timber work is almost entirely con- 

 fined to continental works, it being rarely 

 seen with us. Take, for example, the eaves 

 of houses, or even of common sheds, as 

 railway sheds, &c., with us, we content our- 

 selves by giving a ^^\■^\xv fascia board without 

 any attempt at decorative effect ; whereas, on 

 the Continent, the outer edge is cut up Into 

 elegant curves, with perforations in keeping, 

 the result of which is exceedingly pleasing to 



the eye. This kind of work is quite a 

 specialty amongst the continental workmen, 

 going by the name of " bois decouple," and 

 is carved out as in the case of panels, 

 &c., to a high degree of elaboration. The 

 Exhibition we have above referred to 

 abounded in specimens of this elegant species 

 of work, much of which attracted great atten- 

 tion. It is applicable, as the reader may 

 suppose, to a vast variety of structures ; but 

 it is specially so in the various departments 

 of garden architecture, with which this article 

 specially concerns itself. Evidence of this 

 was met with in the beautiful summer-houses 

 in the parks in the Exhibition already re- 

 ferred to. These are called " Kiosks " by 

 our lively neighbours ; and some idea of the 

 elaborate work put upon them in the way of 

 " bois decoupe'e " decoration, may be gathered 

 from the fact that one exhibited at Havre, 

 of comparatively small size, was valued at 

 4500 francs. On the occasion of our visits 

 to Paris and Havre, we filled our sketch-book 

 with a goodly number of designs in every de- 

 partment of timber, some of which we shall 



Fig. 2. 



from time to time present our readers with. 

 In fig, 2 we give a sketch of a Kiosk. 



