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Thursday, March 22, 2012
'Black Point'
'Black Point', the Henry H. Rogers estate designed by Walker & Gillette c. 1914 in Southampton. Click HERE, HERE and HERE for more on 'Black Point'. Photo from Examples of Work by Lewis & Valentine, 1916.
3 comments:
Doug Floor Plan
said...
I would normally criticize a floor plan where you are required to climb a flight of stairs as soon as you enter the house; but this house is so excellent that I make an exception. Perhaps they tore it down because too many people where just standing & staring at it.
When do Walker & Gillette get their book? Imaginative, civilized, elegant.
And Doug, I'd never criticize a floor plan that has a sense of progression and moment, (and remember, that it was also a practical consideration, as the house was built on the dune ridge, necessitating two levels, as one sees in many other Southampton houses---this one being particularly successful and imaginative in solving the problem (for the more ordinary approach, see the J.Copley Thaw house)
Could easily pass for a view of an Italian farmhouse courtyard that you might have come across on vacation touring one of the hill towns in Italy. The frescoes/murals on the loggia walls are spectacular as is the main room's shallow coffered ceiling and grilles above the french doors. A well designed beach house.
'Black Point', the Henry H. Rogers estate designed by Walker & Gillette c. 1914 in Southampton. Click HERE, HERE and HERE for more on 'Black Point'. Photo from Examples of Work by Lewis & Valentine, 1916.
3 comments:
I would normally criticize a floor plan where you are required to climb a flight of stairs as soon as you enter the house; but this house is so excellent that I make an exception. Perhaps they tore it down because too many people where just standing & staring at it.
When do Walker & Gillette get their book? Imaginative, civilized, elegant.
And Doug, I'd never criticize a floor plan that has a sense of progression and moment, (and remember, that it was also a practical consideration, as the house was built on the dune ridge, necessitating two levels, as one sees in many other Southampton houses---this one being particularly successful and imaginative in solving the problem (for the more ordinary approach, see the J.Copley Thaw house)
Could easily pass for a view of an Italian farmhouse courtyard that you might have come across on vacation touring one of the hill towns in Italy. The frescoes/murals on the loggia walls are spectacular as is the main room's shallow coffered ceiling and grilles above the french doors. A well designed beach house.
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