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Title: Lutyens houses and gardens
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930
Subjects: Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944 Architecture, Domestic Gardens
Publisher: London, Offices of "Country life", ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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129.—Ground Plan. The walls are a dull black, the balconies Venetian red, andthe general woodwork and ceiling white. Facing the win-dows is a fine open fireplace. The sight of it makes onerather irritable with the vain imaginings of those folk whowant to warm us and to cook for us wholly by electricity,or in some other ingenious fashion, and speak urgently ofthe wickedness of open fires. For radiators and otherauxiliaries in a great cause one may have a respectful affec-tion, and yet believe, with Henry Ryecroft, that a fire isa delightful thing, a companion and an inspiration. Thereis a large common sense in what is written in The PrivatePapers: They tell me we are burning all our coal, and Folly Farm 181
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130.—Forecourt Wall and 1906 Wing from East. 182 George Gissing on Open Fires with wicked wastefulness. I am sorry for it, but I cannoton that account make cheerless perhaps the last winter ofmy life. . . . Use common sense, by all means, in theconstruction of grates ; that more than one-half the heatof the kindly coal should be blown up the chimney is desiredby no one ; but hold by the open fire as you hold by what-ever else is best in England. A good deal has happenedsince that was written to discourage waste of coal, but mostpeople will cordially agree with the essayist that nothingcan be the same as a core of glowing fuel. There may beadded, however, a word of practical warning from the samesource, especially as so many country cottages are builtwith big open hearths. I tried fires of wood, having hadmy hearth arranged for the purpose, but that was a mistake.One cannot burn logs successfully in a small room ; eitherthe fire being kept moderate, needs constant attention, orits tr

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