tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post3258892061998395664..comments2024-03-19T02:34:30.151-04:00Comments on The Blue Remembered Hills™: Covered up ...Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-16520826549560189592009-06-11T20:43:52.450-04:002009-06-11T20:43:52.450-04:00Twee is exactly the word that describes it and the...Twee is exactly the word that describes it and the word that was on the tip of my tongue last night as I was writing. <br /><br />I thank y'all for you comments and I think what I will do over the weekend in response to Magnaverde is post the outside of the house. It is that combination of classicism and modernism that succeeds in looking fascist - though maybe that is only with hindsight.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-31186985128331049742009-06-10T19:55:51.900-04:002009-06-10T19:55:51.900-04:00I agree. The whole room... the idea is interesting...I agree. The whole room... the idea is interesting, but it doesn't work. It just turns out theatrical and silly. The word for the mural is "twee".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-75637270570693192009-06-10T10:52:40.950-04:002009-06-10T10:52:40.950-04:00Yes, Battersby's tepid mural does seem lost in...Yes, Battersby's tepid mural does seem lost in such a vast space, but the real problem is not the decor, but the underlying program. Someone would have done well to listen to Edith Wharton in "The Decoration of Houses." <br /><br />"The tendency to merge into any one room two apartments designed for different purposes shows a retrogression in house planning...In many large houses lately built in America, with ball and music rooms and a hall simulating the two-storied Italian saloon, this distinction [between different types of rooms] has been disregarded and living and gala rooms have been confounded in an agglomeration of apartments where the family, for lack of a smaller suite, sit under gilded ceilings and cut glass chandeliers in about smuch comfort and privacy as are afforded by the public "parlors" of one of our new twenty story hotels. <br /><br />The confusion of two different types of room designed for essentially different phases of life has been caused by the fact that the architect, when called upon to build a grand house has simply enlarged, instead of altering, the maison bourgeoise that that has hitherto been the accepted model...treat[ing] halls like rooms of the most informal character with open fireplaces, easy chairs for lounging and reading, tables with lamps, books and magazines and all the appointments of a library...magnaverdehttp://magnaverde.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-21833491710070821472009-06-10T08:50:26.106-04:002009-06-10T08:50:26.106-04:00The mural looks like it was Photoshopped in and is...The mural looks like it was Photoshopped in and is now fading away. I'm not getting it. Maybe you have to be there.Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14154846109609330503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785207417164829425.post-4697467737717114582009-06-09T21:53:59.208-04:002009-06-09T21:53:59.208-04:00In the small picture, the mural looks "PhotoS...In the small picture, the mural looks "PhotoShopped in." In the bigger picture it looks like it's fading away - and the sooner the better. I don't think I'd feel very comfy in there. I'm going to look again tomorrow.Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14154846109609330503noreply@blogger.com