Garden City Houses and Domestic Interior Details.
Reading edition
Garden suburbs, or suburbs developed on lines that are far more rural than is possible in the centre of a town, have sprung up all over the country, and the architect has been confronted with a new task—the task of designing a small house which can be erected at moderate cost, but which, nevertheless, provides accommodation in keeping with the demands of modern life.
It is of great value to have an illustrated survey of the most noteworthy houses that have been erected. The present volume gives such a survey, in the form of special photographs reproduced to a good size, showing the actual appearance of the houses, accompanied in every case by carefully drawn plans. The examples include work by all the leading architects who have devoted special attention to the problem of the small house, and their solutions are presented in the most attractive form.
Such illustrations alone would make the book an extremely useful one, but when to them is added a fine collection of domestic interior details, the value of the book becomes greatly enhanced. These details are of an essentially practical character, showing in a complete manner the design and construction of such features as chimneypieces, panelling, dressers, servery, and store-room fittings, &c. A typical specification of a garden city house is also given, accompanied by working drawings.
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