Half Pudding Half Sauce: Arts and Decorations 1920

Monday, June 17, 2019

Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt and Her Baby Gloria Laura

IN MEMORIAM OF GLORIA VANDERBILT by her son Anderson Cooper

Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt and Her Baby

Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt having spent the early summer abroad have returned to Sandy Point Farm, Newport. The picture shown above of Mrs. Vanderbilt and her fascinating little daughter, Gloria Laura, is one of the most charming pictures of maternal beauty that Arts & Decoration has ever published. The pose is so tender and sensitive, revealing perhaps even more than a formal picture young Mrs. Vanderbilts rare charm and gracious personality. It is easy to understand how this baby remained "good" long enough to have her picture taken with her eyes focused on so lovely a spectacle.

"SANDY POINT STABLES

COVER DESIGN:
Miss Kendall Lee—from a painting by Tade Styka.

Arts & Decorations

Friday, February 15, 2013

Residence Clyde M. Carr, Lake Forest, Ill.

IN considering the work of Mr. Lindeberg it is fair to take the Carr house as illustrative of many important points, many things which make Mr. Lindeberg's country houses definitely different from the usual country house. Different, specifically, from virtually all other work, which, in its general character could he taken as of the same class for purposes of comparison.

The Carr house is one which will long be conspicuous as an expression of a happy freedom of American domestic architecture from the tyranny of "style." Its style is positive
and personal and entirely outside the category of copy-book architecture or "paper" architecture. It is a living proof of its architect's belief that departure from precedent does not need to imply architectural vagary.

From the beginning of his career, Mr. Lindeberg has evidenced his strong architectural convictions in a succession of unusually vigorous solutions of the problems of modern country house design. Nor can these houses be discussed in terms of "style" as "style" is generally understood. They have a distinct "manner" but no "style"—a manner which seems individual and varied when viewed casually, but which adheres with extraordinary consistency to certain essential traits.

This manner, so vitally inspiring in the Carr house, seems to be a direct result of a fearlessly independent spirit, which respects precedent, but is not constrained by it.

Plot Plan and Floor Plans
Residence Clyde M. Carr, Lake Forest, Ill.

Reverting again to the Carr house, a mention of its ingenuity of plan should form part of any critical estimate, for the plan is unusual in itself, while characteristic of the practical resourcefulness of its architect. The plan in this case was devised to afford absolute privacy, not only to the garden front, but also to the front commanding a view of the lake. This was attained by throwing the entrance drive off at an angle and screening it with heavy planting. ***C. Matlack Price 1920***