House & Garden 
The nerw home 
or remodelled home 
The Shower 
PEOPLE know now that the BATH-A-DAY 
is vital to health; they know that the easiest, 
quickest, cleanest way to bathe is in the clear, 
running water which the shower bath alone 
affords. 
That’s why no new home, no remodelled home 
is right unless it has its modern bath rooms, 
and no bath room is modem withoutitsshower. 
The Kenney Shower, with its new, scientific 
principle of converging inward and downward 
needle streams, does away with the unsightly, 
unsanitary curtain and the messy bath room. 
It's a body shower; it puts the water where 
you want it; no wet hair, and it’s the ideal 
shower for the whole family. Even the chil¬ 
dren can use it without flooding the bath¬ 
room, and they like it. 
The large illustration at top clearly shows the 
built-in Congress Concealed Model which your 
architect can specify and your plumber install. 
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“Your Bathroom and the Kenney 
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A doorway in which Wren’s 
genius for proportion and 
Grinling Gibbon’s genius for 
luscious detail are richly and 
beautifully brought together 
A fireplace and overmantel 
treatment characteristic of the 
Wren manner. Both fireplace 
and the door to the left are in 
St. Lawrence Jewry, London 
Sir Christopher 
dignity befitting the natural greatness 
of Man. It was Thomas Carlyle who 
made the truest and most illuminating 
remark about Wren as an artist. “I 
had passed Chelsea Hospital”, he told 
a friend, “almost daily for many years 
without thinking much about it, and 
one day I began to reflect that it had 
always been a pleasure for me to see 
it. I looked at it more attentively 
and saw that it was quiet and digni¬ 
fied and the work of a gentleman”. 
All Wren’s buildings are the work of 
a gentleman—of a man of breeding and 
culture and good taste, of a believer in 
an ordered, decent, and spacious ex¬ 
istence, of an apostle of dignity and 
restraint. He shows us how these quali¬ 
ties of a gentleman can be embodied in 
bricks and mortar; how we may make 
them part of our environment. 
Let us come down to a specific ap¬ 
preciation of Wren’s architectural gifts. 
To begin with, we will ask ourselves 
a simple question: What are the quali¬ 
ties which go to make good architec¬ 
ture? Writing of the fine baroque 
church of Salute at Venice, Ruskin 
said: “It is to be generally observed 
that the proportions of buildings have 
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nothing to do with the style and gen¬ 
eral merit of their architecture. An 
architect trained in the worst schools, 
and utterly devoid of all meaning and 
purpose in his work, may yet have 
such a natural gift of massing the 
grouping as will render his structure 
effective when seen at a distance.” 
Ruskin, then, had a notion that good 
architecture is a matter of details. It 
was the “Stones of Venice”—the in¬ 
dividual chunks of carved and fretted 
marble or oolite—that mattered; not 
the design of the building of which 
these stones were but the smallest units. 
It is recognized by most intelligent 
people that Ruskin’s extraordinary 
notion of architecture—a monstrous 
and happily unprecedented notion—is 
hopelessly wrong. When one wants to 
describe the beauty of a woman, one 
does not talk about the electrons and 
chemical atoms of which she is ulti¬ 
mately composed; one talks of the fine 
proportion of her figure, of the strange¬ 
ly satisfying relations existing between 
different features of her face. And in 
exactly the same way if one is to 
talk rationally about architecture one 
(Continued on page 154,) 
The dignified classic quality 
of Wren’s exterior architec¬ 
ture is seen in the “Orangery” 
which he built in 1706 in 
Kensington Gardens, in 
London 
At the head of the Serpentine, 
in Kensington Gardens, stands 
one of Wren’s distinctly Pal- 
ladian designs for a classic 
summer house, beautifidly 
detailed 
