September, i g 2 j 
51 
Lee 
ARCHES AND VISTAS 
The best way to think of a door opening is as 
though it were a frame, and the vista through it 
a picture. In that way the effect of awkwardness is 
escaped and a result such as this hallway gives is 
achieved. Here are three adjacent openings, 
happily composed by the magic of the arch, which 
has been always architecture's greatest gift to 
building. The materials, too, compose happily, 
since they are related in texture and feeling—and 
the rough cast of the walls and arches, the sturdy 
oak of the doors, the single, robust lines of the stairs 
and the newel post. Thus good, logical design 
makes ornament unnecessary. The house is at Larch- 
mont, N. C. C. Merritt is owner and architect 
