November, i g 2 j 
83 
Like the timbers in the hallways, these 
beams in the living room, though they 
arc made more consciously decorative by 
discreet carving, are not fake, not lacked 
to the ceiling, but form most of the 
framework which supports the roof 
The plan of the house was made roughly 
y-shaped in order that it ?night fit snugly 
the topography of the site. Such a 
general plan has resulted in an unusu¬ 
ally interesting room arrangement and 
a departure from complete rectangularity 
The timbers in the walls of the hallway 
are not a mild deceptioti and a merely 
pleasant decoration, hut are actually 
working members in the structural 
scheme of the house, a fact which gives 
them a more than superficial beauty 
AN EXAMPLE OF 
AUTHENTIC DESIGN 
LEWIS BOWMAN, Architect 
