Bungalows by Kathryn Ferry

Author:Kathryn Ferry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bungalows
ISBN: 9781784420017
Publisher: Osprey Publishing Ltd

The bungalow in fiction. Joan, Betty and Mollie have adventures while roughing it in a country bungalow. Though these girls from good homes enjoy their freedom, after saving the day they happily relocate to the more conventional local manor house.

Supporting this blissful bungalow image was a growing body of technical and design literature that discussed such practicalities as site specifications, planning and drainage, the use of materials and acceptable ornament. The Building News had taken an early interest in Taylor and Seddon’s Thanet bungalows and returned to give them detailed critiques in 1895, then again in a series of twenty-seven articles published throughout 1905–6. The same journal also ran competitions through its ‘Designing Club’, encouraging architects to grapple with the particular requirements of a hillside, riverside or weekend bungalow. Commenting on entries submitted in 1898 for the first of these, intended as the summer residence of a gentleman, The Building News proclaimed that ‘the chances for artistic originality are unfettered, provided all attempt at a monumental style of building is avoided, and the suitability of simplicity is acknowledged’. The continually stressed virtue of simplicity chimed perfectly with the Arts and Crafts ethic of The Studio magazine, another key source of design ideas, which illustrated bungalows by architects including R. A. Briggs and H. M. Baillie Scott.

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