HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 
I9U 
4i7 
They are decorated at 
each end with a low 
vase on brick foundation 
piers. 
These vases illustrate 
not only the spirit of the 
house, but the social life 
of the colony. They 
were made of concrete 
and Volkmar tiles by a 
friend of the family, an 
artist, an amateur at 
vases. As the friend 
came from New York 
for a week-end now and 
then, the vases were not 
made in a day, and 
when they were finally 
finished, the whole 
colony, children and 
grown people, came to 
celebrate their unveiling. 
It was called Vase Day. 
There were poems on vases, essays on the history and meaning of 
vases, on ancient vases and modern vases, on tiles and the uses 
of concrete. Everybody in the colony had studied up vases in 
one way or another. It fairly seemed as though the two vases 
had produced a liberal education 'for themselves and their kind 
in the entire community. It is good to make much in this way 
of the spirit of things, to symbolize for both children and grown 
people with parties and unveilings the work and meaning that 
we put into our household things and to connect them with the 
thought and spirit, the art and labor that have always in the 
whole history of the human race been given them. 
As for the plan of the house, there is a hall in the center with 
a drawing-room on one side and a library and a dining-room on 
the other. The staircase is not only an important feature in the 
living-hall, but a more or less decisive factor in the entire plan 
of the central part of the house. It has been made to run up 
to form part of a long middle corridor with bedrooms on both 
sides of it and bathrooms at the ends. In doing this, space was 
left behind the staircase in the center part of the first floor for 
two small rooms that are used as a kind of office-study and 
Among the many attractive points of the drawing-room are the elevation 
of the floor and the bow window. The woodwork here is black and 
the paper a deep green 
The office- 
study is connected 
with the drawing¬ 
room platform, 
so that when this 
platform is used 
as a stage, it 
makes a conveni¬ 
ent entrance way. 
Its charm, how¬ 
ever, lies in the 
fact that it is 
a garden room, 
with two large 
transformed and 
mullioned double 
glass doors lead¬ 
ing out upon the 
low garden porch. 
The small tele¬ 
telephone room. The 
staircase, after the first 
few steps, which leads 
to a corner landing, 
runs parallel to the 
front entrance along the 
long side of the room. 
Directly opposite to the 
front door it forms a 
second landing, under 
which there is a passage 
which connects by 
glass doors with the 
office-study beyond. 
This passage also opens 
up a fine opportunity of 
using the space beneath 
the stairs for a coat 
closet and lavatory. 
The staircase, a decisive factor in the plan of the house, runs up to form part of a long middle corridor, along 
which, on both sides, are bedrooms 
The "Madame Butterfly" window looking out from the 
dining-room over the garden has the characteristic 
Japanese sliding windows and low platform 
phone room beside it is directly connected 
with the hall and the dining-room. Beyond 
the dining-room there is a butler’s pantry, 
which is the only passageway between the 
main house and the service wing. This wing- 
consists of a kitchen, pantry and laundry 
on the first floor, two servants’ rooms and 
a bath on the second. The main bedrooms 
of the house are above the drawing-room 
and have glass doors leading out upon an 
uncovered porch. 
Although the family numbers only four, 
from the very plan with its ten bedrooms, 
