Pergolas and Loggias 
A RUSTIC SUMMER-HOUSE 
feature; it not only served as a gallery or por¬ 
tico, but in its early use it was invariably hung 
with paintings. While the pergola of the 
American garden may be set at some dis¬ 
tance from the house, the loggia continues to 
be a part of the house, or is closely connected 
with it in this country, 
as in Italy. Archi¬ 
tects have recently 
awakened to its value; 
a statement that has 
been applied to the 
pergola, “the fact that 
architects all over the 
country are making it 
a study does not in¬ 
dicate that it is a pop¬ 
ular fad, but that it 
has come to stay,” is 
now equally applicable 
to the loggia. 
We are told by those 
versed in gardening 
knowledge, and the 
innovations of home 
building, that “no ar¬ 
chitectural innovation 
is more to be com¬ 
mended than the use 
of the loggia, which may be described as a 
recessed piazza—a piazza set back into the 
body of the house, flanked at either end by the 
walls, and covered by the projection of the 
upper storey. In Italy it does not usually 
appear on the ground floor, for there this floor 
is not devoted to the chief apartments; but its 
effect is lust as good when it is adapted to 
our own customs of building and living. 
In certain very exposed situations the piazza 
may well be entirely banished in favor of a 
loggia; in others a small open piazza may be 
effectively supplemented by a larger loggia; 
and in almost every country house at least, 
a little loggia should be introduced either 
up-stairs or down. Our climate is so variable 
that too careful a provision can hardly be 
made for changing winds and skies and 
temperatures.” This may be a new idea 
to many who have considered the loggia a 
form of garden decoration rather than a mere 
recessed piazza. In its more popular form 
it is neither confined to the balcony plan, as 
first used here, nor to its original use in Italy 
as a gallery for paintings, but may assume 
various forms of a partially enclosed gallery 
leading from the house to the garden. 
Fantastic forms are eschewed in building 
the pergola. Any attempt at filigree orna¬ 
mentation immediately spoils the effect. 
A RUSTIC PERGOLA 
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