HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1910 
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A beautifully detailed rose lat¬ 
tice on a modern Colonial 
house at Litchfield, Conn. 
Even for interiors, when of an informal character such as a billiard 
room or conservatory, latticework may be effectively used as a 
wall decoration 
The green-painted lattice filling 
between the pergola arches 
relieves the white woodwork 
it appears on “Wyck,” one of the finest old homes in German¬ 
town, Pa., where it covers the entire lawn side of the white plas¬ 
ter house, giving, with its burden, 
a wonderfully beautiful chiaro¬ 
scuro in green and white. 
The recent popularity of lat¬ 
tices among the architects who 
are designing country and subur¬ 
ban homes is based on intrinsic 
merit rather than upon any mere¬ 
ly temporary appeal to their de¬ 
corative sense. 
An architectural fad may 
readily be marked as such from 
its inception, the acid test for it 
being, “Is it based on an actual 
need and does it fulfil its function 
in a straightforward rational 
manner?” If an architectural 
form or detail can measure up to 
that test it is no more a fad than 
is a rain-conductor. 
Now to get down to details. A lattice framework should have 
substantial supporting members — vertical or horizontal, or both, 
depending upon whether these lead 
up from the ground or are merely 
applied to the building horizontally 
■— and this framework will bear the 
lath-like strips to ' hich the vines 
cling. For these strips ordinary 
rough laths will serve well enough 
if they are sound, free from knots, 
and if they are painted with a good 
lead-and-oil mixture. The rough 
surface of a common lath is un¬ 
doubtedly a more acceptable sup¬ 
port, from the vine's point of view, 
than any smoothly planed strips. 
Although I have never seen it 
done, there seems to be a very 
excellent reason for attaching the 
main framework to blocks on the 
wall by means of removable bolts. 
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Latticework is effectively introduced to give more appar¬ 
ent strength to the supports in the home of A. W. Lord, 
architect 
For use as garden walls or to separate the various parts of an estate 
latticework has great possibilities 
Even on the more elaborate architectural types latticework may be 
effectively introduced. Carrere & Hastings, architects 
