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THE HOUSE AND ITS EQUIPMENT. 



26. DINING-ROOM DRESSER AT SAXDHOUSE. 



the room arose out of a necessity of the plan 

 absolute sincerity and his adherence to the lines 

 and proper ones. And it is a good 

 reed this, to be content to work on 

 a definite line, not following all the 

 wayward caprices ot fashion ; not being 

 Oinvii Anne one year and Mary Anne 

 the next. In the end it is so much 

 the better for one s self and one s art, 

 and the price once paid brings hope of 

 Progress. One cannot serve both 

 Beauty and Ugliness, and though 

 expediency may be sometimes a 

 necessity, it is rarely a virtue. 



The sideboard at Dolobran, 

 ( hi&amp;gt;lehurst, designed by Mr. Curtis 

 Green (Fig. 23), is an interesting piece 

 of furniture made rather to fit into its 

 resting-place than as an actual fitment. 

 It seems to have been designed with 

 more sympathy than has gone to its 

 making ; while it is clearly an exceed 

 ingly well-made piece, it is a little hard 

 in execution. The converse of fitting 

 furniture to its place is shown in 



ingle is lowered, as it should be for the sake ot 

 proportion, and there are two good boot cup 

 boards at the side of the fireplace. Attention 

 may be drawn to the ingenious arrangement 

 of the hearth, taken right across the chimney, 

 and the way that the white bands in it stop 

 against the bases of the architrave to the 

 fireplace and the side pilasters. Much pains 

 taking care was necessary to make such a thing 

 as this a success, and there must be a recogni 

 tion, on the part of the public, that many things 

 go to the successful production of a work of art 

 or a period ot good design. 



The china cupboard designed by Mr. 

 Lut yens ( Fig. 25) shows a skilful use of a recess, and 

 the gla/.ed doors, behind which china is displayed, 

 hamed by the circular-headed architrave, make 

 a dignified whole. The fitment gains in use, 

 and does not lose in beauty, by the skilful way 

 in which a heating radiator has been concealed 

 behind the fret in the base. 



Sir Robert Lorimer has also treated the 

 probbm of screening radiators in the ante 

 room of the dining-room at Lympne Castle. 

 He was earning out the reparation of a mediaeval 

 house, and consequently the panelling has the 

 character of the period. Radiators are essential 

 to modern dwellers in mediaeval houses, and 

 here is one contrived in artful fashion, again 

 with china shelves over (Fig. 21). 



The sideboard in the dining-room of The 

 1 1 oincst cad at Frinton-on-Sea was designed by Mr. 

 Yoysey (Fig. 22). The motif here was a holiday 

 home, where all work might be reduced to the 

 minimum, so far as domestic service and upkeep 

 were concerned, and the angle treatment of 

 Tin 1 dominant note of Mr. Yoysey s work is its 

 which he has marked out for himself as the right 



27 A BEDROOM &quot; FITMENT/ BY MR. VOYSEY. 



