THE PRECEDENT OF GARDEN DESIGN. 



The modern that every common thing about our homes should be so designed as to be beautiful 



revival in without impairing its usefulness, while it has inevitably led to some of the extravagances 



garden of the " Art nuovo " cult, has had an unbounded influence for good, and the recognition 



design. of the equally obvious truism that all art media owe their artistic effect to juxtaposition 



of harmony or contrast has led us to see that, between the designer of the house and 



the architect of its setting, there must be the closest artistic sympathy and mutual 



appreciation if the result of the work is to be successful. 



This close sympathetic connection can only be realized when the education of the 

 votaries of these two departments of art is based upon a broadened curriculum which 

 will ensure each gaining an insight in the round into the aesthetic factors dominating 

 the sphere of the other. 



We now stand at the parting of the ways and it remains to be seen whether the 

 landscape architect on the one hand will co-operate with the domestic architect, and 

 whether the latter will work in generous harmony with him, or whether the houses and 

 gardens of the future are, by their aloofness from one another and want of aesthetic 

 connection, to shew evidences of that lack of all appreciation on the part of each for 

 the work of the other which has marked the domestic architecture of the last century. 

 Eventually, but not before we are prepared to devote a longer period to academic studies, 

 these two callings, so necessary to each other and so closely interwoven at every point, may 

 merge into one. 







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