The Five Star Villa

Villa gardens articles:

The Aspect

There is generally one door by which the inmates of the house most often enter the garden. Let that be the starting point from which the principal path shall lead directly to the flowers.

The Walks

Economy of space demands that the path should exist for utility alone. No considerations of symmetry, or of what is common and customary, should be permitted to influence the gardener.

The Beds

The lawn is so dear to the heart of the average gardener - he must have his little square of neatly mown turf - that I would not deprive him of it, though I could design him a garden, and a delightful one too, without so much as a square yard of grass.

Homes for the people articles:

Principle of beauty

The examples of classic art cannot fitly be developed in the modern villa, or, at best, only small portions of their details.

American architecture is indefinable

Let any reader walk down Broadway, or the streets of any large American city, and observe how justly the charge is deserved; if a building have any style at all, it will certainly prove to be.

Modifying styles of architecture

We have thought and designed for centuries, and yet to classic architecture no new order has been added, nor to the intricacies of Gothic loveliness have we yet been able to join a single new beauty - nor shall we whilst we are dove-tailers - we must originate.