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Cottage Ornee Designs circa 1813, 1816 and 1817 – London Architecture
“OFFICES. In forming this plan, care has been taken to avoid whatever experience has found to be objectionable relating to the domestic offices, and to afford facility of communication to the apartments, without subjecting them to inconvenience or offence. The door of separation in the hall completely divides the offices from the superior parts of…
Read MoreGothic Cottage Designs circa 1816 and 1817 – London Architecture
“The plate annexed is a design for a small Gothic building. It consists of a parlour and dining-room, a kitchen, scullery, and larder, with four bed-rooms. The servants’ apartments are some steps lower than the other rooms, and being of a less height, they appear to occupy only one story, forming a sub-building to the…
Read MoreGardener’s Cottage Designs circa 1816 and 1821 – London Architecture
“Although the annexed design was made expressly for the residence of the gardener of a nobleman’s establishment, it is quite applicable to the purpose of a lodge; and if a little simplified in point of embellishment, would also be proper for the cottage of the husbandman: in each of the applications it would afford convenience…
Read MoreThe Fourplex – Four Cottages Design circa 1817 – London Architecture
“The habitations of the labouring poor may be rendered ornamental, and the comforts of them increased, at a very trifling charge beyond the cost of common buildings: and for this purpose the annexed plate is designed for four cottages, connected with each other, and under one roof; a mode of building that admits a considerable…
Read MoreCottage Designs circa 1817 – London Architecture
“The plan of this rural building is arranged for the accommodation of two ladies, whose establishment is three female servants and a gardener, his residence being at a small distance only from the cottage. Its situation combines the romantic with the rural, and as it affords the view of a beautiful piece of water, bounded…
Read MoreRene Binet – Paris Art Nouveau Architect and Painter
According to Gustave Geffroy, in Esquisses décoratives, Binet found inspiration in nature. Binet believed that you could escape the obsession of the past, of tradition, by focusing on nature which is always in motion and always producing. Nature never stops nor hesitates. To Binet, nature is where we can find the secret of creation and…
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