ERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1908 



house, and are surmounted by 

 an ample platform, a quite 

 sufficient space on which to 

 stand while awaiting the 

 opening of the door. A third 

 step forms the sill, and it, 

 too, is a part of the house 

 structure. -The doorway pro- 

 jection is surmounted by a 

 simple flat band without 

 moldings; the doorway itself 

 is seemingly cut through the 

 stucco walls, and is likewise 

 without ornament; and hence 

 the garland swung above it 

 has the greater ornamental 

 value in its leaves and flowers 

 and in the grotesque mask 

 from which it hangs. The 

 door itself is equally simple 

 and restrained; it is made of 

 strips of cypress balicned to- 

 gether. Below is a great 

 wrought iron hingi.; above is 

 an iron grille, glazed within, 

 and an antique knob and 

 knocker. Structurally, there- 



June, 1908 



fore, nothing could be si: 

 ler, yet sundry ornamci 

 objects close at hand ; 

 much to the effect of this 

 simple entrance; such are the 

 vases and the tubs of ha; 

 trees on each side of th< 

 steps; such is the old Italian 

 lantern hanging on the hi 

 wall to one side; such, ag 

 are the Delia Robbia rel 

 let into the wall above the 

 door. The reliefs are b. 

 rowed from the famous 

 Cantoria, now preserved in 

 Florence, and constitute the 

 single piece of pure orna- 

 ment, of ornament without 

 structural relationship, in the 

 whole front. An exception 

 should, however, be made for 

 the balustraded balcony in 

 the second story to the left 

 of the doorway, but this is 

 an architectural feature, de- 

 signed in a somewhat formal 

 manner, and itself an orna- 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



The Trelliscd Window of the K.tcher 



The Sleps to the llalian Gatd. 



