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They are decorated at telephone room. The

each end with a 10w staircase, after the first
vase on brick foundation few steps, which leads
piers. to a corner landing,
These vases illustrate runs parallel to the
not only the spirit of the front entrance along the
house, but the social life long side of the room.
of the colony. They Directly opposite to the
were made of concrete front door it forms a
and Volkmar tiles by a second landing, under
friend of the family, an which there is a passage
artist, an amateur at which connects by
vases. As the friend glass doors with the
came from New York office-study beyond.
for a week-end now and This passage also opens
then, the vases were not
up a fine opportunity of
made in a day, and
using the space beneath
when they were finally
the stairs for a coat
finished, the whole
children and closet and lavatory.
colony,
Among the many attractivepointsof thedrawing-roomare the elevation
grown people, came to
of the floor and the bow window. The woodWOrkhere is black and
celebrate their unveiling. the paper a deep green
It was called Vase Day.
There were poems on vases, essays on the history and meaning of The 0 f f i c e—
vases, on ancient vases and modern vases, on tiles and the uses study is connected
of concrete. Everybody in the colony had studied up vases in with the drawing
one way or another. It fairly seemed as though the two vases room platform,
had produced a liberal education for themselves and their kind so that when this
in the entire community. It is good to make much in this way platform is used
of the spirit of things, to symbolize for both children and grown as a stage, it
people with parties and unveilings the work and meaning that makes a conveni—
we put into our household things and to connect them with the ent entrance way.
thought and spirit, the art and labor that have always in the Its charm, how—
whole history of the human race been given them. ever, lies in the
As for the plan of the house, there is a hall in the center with fact that it is
a drawing-room on one side and a library and a dining-room on a garden room,
the other. The staircase is not only an important feature in the with two large
living-hall, but a more or less decisive factor in the entire plan transformed and
of the central part of the house. It has been made to run up mullioned double
to form part of a long middle corridor with bedrooms on both glass doors lead
sides of it and bathrooms at the ends. In doing this, space was ing out upon the
left behind the staircase in the center part of the first floor for low garden porch.
two small rooms that are used as a kind of office-study and The small tele

The "Madame Butterfly" window looking out from the

dining-room over the garden has the characteriatic
Japanesesliding window: and low platform

phone room beside it is directly connected

with the hall and the dining-room. Beyond
the dining-room there is a butler’s pantry,
which is the only passageway between the
main house and the service wing. This wing
consists of a kitchen, pantry and laundry
on the first floor, two servants’ rooms and
a bath on the second. The main bedrooms
of the house are above the drawing-room
and have glass doors leading out upon an
.
up], uncovered porch.
Although the family numbers only four,
The staircase,a decisivefactor in theplan of the house,rum up to form part of a long middle corridor. along
which. on bothsides.are bedrooms from the very plan with its ten bedrooms,