86 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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tically becomes a snowscape, 
month in and month out, one 
welcomes the pattern relief 
from the monotonous vista, 
which relief the well-designed 
window in leaded glass af- 
fords. Although American 
artists lead the world in 
stained glass, it must be con- 
ceded that Germany, up to 
the present, has produced the most interest- 
ing leaded glass so far as contemporary 
work is concerned. We have much that we 
can learn from our Teutonic neighbors in the 
spacing of design, vigor and beauty of line, 
correct application of pattern, and in the re- 
markable command their artists. in glass dis- 
play in the use of the leaded line. ‘The two 
illustrations upon this page are reproduc- 
tions of examples of leaded glass windows 
by German artists. 
We find in European countries that coats- 
of-arms constitute a favorite form of leaded 
glass decoration, the various heraldic bear- 
ings often being carried out in tinted glass. 
Both stained and leaded glass lend them- 
selves well to heraldic design, but in Amer- 
An ingeniously designed window in 
leaded glass, approaching stained 
glass in conception 
March, 1912 
ica, where our democratic 
ideals have led us to refrain 
from remembering ourselves 
and our friends of family 
history in this manner 
(though there seems no good 
reason why we should not), 
we are more apt to select 
some other device to serve 
as the decorative motif for 
the windows of leaded glass we have in our 
houses. Our favorite pursuits, our hobbies, 
our favorite flowers, and other things of the 
sort, come first to our mind when deciding 
upon some suitable scheme of decoration for 
leaded glass windows. Indeed, instead of 
leaving the matter to the taste of some one 
else, every home-builder should strive to 
have every feature in the house expressive 
of individuality, and nothing succeeds in 
doing this more completely than does the 
well-designed window in stained or leaded 
glass—a window expressing the tastes of 
the owner, or at least strongly influenced 
by them. The home-builder possessed of 
skill in designing will find satisfaction in 
working out patterns for his own house. 
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A well-designed panel in white leaded glass 
A Western Suburban House 
By Robert Leonard Ames 
ESTERN archtecture shows much that is 
bold, rugged, individual, and untrammeled 
by the devotion to precedent that one is more 
apt to meet with in the East. ‘This is par- 
ticularly true of the architecture of Chicago, 
and its environs. It is not to be wondered 
at that the city which gave area to some of the best work 
of Richardson, and which witnessed the rise of Louis H. 
Sullivan and the school of which he was the most conspic- 
uous member should give impetus to what practically has 
A residence in the “Western” style of architecture, at Wilmette, Illinois, one of Chicago’s most attractive suburbs 
become a new style in domestic architecture, embodying 
many of the characteristics of the most successful works 
of the school of men just referred to who often have been 
called “insurgents” in architecture by some of their con- 
freres. For lack of a better name ‘Western Architecture” 
has come to be used in designating the style peculiar to cer- 
tain of these architects, who have paid particular attention to 
the building of suburban houses, among whom the name of 
Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed the house at Wilmette, 
Illinois, here illustrated, stands conspicuously prominent in 
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