House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT. Editor 
R. S. LEMMON. Managing Editor 
NOVEMBER HOUSE PLANNING 
T HE secret of a successful house lies in a 
successful plan, and the time to study plans 
is during the winter months. That is why 
we devote this November issue to house plan¬ 
ning. Let’s see what it does for the man who 
hopes to build— 
First there is an article on the evolution of a 
house plan—how the architect works up the 
ideas of the client until the last detailed drawing 
is made. In reading this evolution you will see 
how architect and client stand and what each is 
to expect of the other. For those who would 
go further and visualize the house more realis¬ 
tically there is an article on house models, those 
delightful little miniatures made of clay or card¬ 
board that show exactly how the projected 
house will look. 
From these plans you step to the pages oi 
finished houses—two pages of delightful little 
cottages in California, another page showing 
two small houses and plans from the South. 
This not being enough, we include another small 
house that was built for a most unusual pur¬ 
pose. It is a cottage erected on the estate of a 
newly-married couple and designed for the re¬ 
spective mothers-in-law during their visits. It 
Among the many houses shown in the 
November issue will be this example of 
stucco, with fascinating garden steps 
quite solves the usual mother-in-law problem. 
Then you pass on to the larger houses, an 
English type of stucco and two in the Italian 
manner by Mr. Guy Lowell, the architect of the 
Woolworth Building. Mr. Lowell has trans¬ 
planted Italian architecture most successfully in 
these two examples. As a filip for this comes 
an article on gates and grills in Spanish archi¬ 
tecture, the sort one sees in Cuba and South 
America. 
Going inside the house, you learn how a dec¬ 
orator works, what she does for the client and 
what the client does for her. There is also a 
page of the old scenic papers. During the war 
it was rumored that the blocks for printing these 
papers had been destroyed. This proved false. 
The blocks are safe and the factory is now in 
operation. We can again have those lovely- 
papers on our walls. 
The questions of period designs in music 
cases is also discussed, the proper electric wiring 
for a house and the installation of stationary- 
vacuum cleaners. 
The care and placing of house plants in 
winter is a topic relative to this season and its 
facts will be appreciated by the gardener. 
Contents for October, 1920. Volume XXXVIII, No. Four 
Cover Design by L. T. Guild, Executed by George Brandt 
The Two Gardens.. 
Martha Brooks Hutcheson, Landscape Architect 
The Moods of An Autumn Garden. 
Richardson Wright 
A House for a Narrow Lot. 
Howard Major, Architect 
International Gardening... 
Thanksgiving .•••. 
Theodore Maynard 
The Choice of Garden Gates. 
Howard Major, Architect 
Collecting Autographs. 
Gardner Teall 
Enclosed Porches. 
From Farm to Table. 
Laurence H. Parker 
The Attic As Guest Room. 
Agnes Foster Wright 
The Rectangular Lot. 
Elizabeth Leonard Strang 
An English Garden in Spring. 
Mrs. Francis King 
Crystal . 
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A House at Greenwich, Con;n. 
Cross & Cross, Architects' 
Fall Planting and Transplanting. 
Robert Stell 
Fall Planting Table. 
Engaging a Landscape Architect. 
Elsa Rehmann 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors 
Bouquets the Winter Through. 
Evelyn Craig Corlett 
Roses Planted in the Fall. 
J. Horace McFarland 
Finials . 
The Small Formal House.. 
Harold Donaldson Eberlein 
Beauty and the Bathroom. 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Planning the Modern Laundry. 
Verna Cook Salomonsky 
Comfortable Tables and Chairs. 
Order Below the Stairs. 
Wallace B. Hart 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 
Copyright, 1920, by Condc Nast & Co., Inc. 
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