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Barry Parker. The Art of Building a Home: A collection of lectures and illustrations
The Art of Building a Home: A collection of lectures and illustrations
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
THE SMALLER MIDDLE CLASS HOUSE
THE DIGNITY OF ALL TRUE ART
OUR EDUCATION IN ART
ART AND SIMPLICITY
OF FURNITURE. Part 1
OF FURNITURE. Part 2
BUILDING & NATURAL BEAUTY
CO-OPERATION IN BUILDING
THE ART OF DESIGNING SMALL HOUSES AND COTTAGES
LIST OF PLATES
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Raymond Sir Unwin, Barry Parker
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Now this fear of repetition is no imaginary evil, but a very real and living one. How often do we all attempt something fresh, knowing it not to be the best we can do, (best I mean more in kind than degree) simply from a weak dislike that people should say of us, that we have only one style. How often do we turn out a design for a certain purpose and position, knowing it to be not so good as one we have before made for a similar purpose and position, simply because we have not strength to repeat what we believe to be best, lest people should think that is all we can do. In so doing we preclude all possibility of development.
Now observe, this never occurs during the progress of any living art in the past. The man who had carved one Early English capital did not, when next he had a capital to carve, say, “I know nothing more beautiful, but I must at any rate do something different, I must not put the same capital here again.” On the contrary, his aim was to carve a similar capital again, only he would try to do a better one; for probably he had noticed some little point in which he could improve on the last he did; some way in which he could mass his light and shade so as to give them a more pleasing form when seen at a distance; or some more lovely feeling it was possible to introduce into the reveal of a leaf or the curve of a stem.
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