HOUSE OF DR. W. S. RAINSFORD, RIDGEFIELD, CONN.
GROSVENOR ATTERBURY, ARCHITECT HOUSE OF PAOLINO GERLI, BRONXVILLE, N. Y.
EUGENE L. LANG, ARCHITECT
presented on previous occasions. The visitor approaches through the usual entrance, now transformed by the termes which flank it, and by a large, white eagle, whose outstretched wings reach across the main doorway. A writer, referring to the decorative features of this entrance, and the fact that the large eagle is the splendidly conceived national bird, suggests that the national motto, E Pluribus Unum, could also be aptly used to indicate the character of the exhibition within.
Along the wide entrance hallway, leading to the South Gallery, which is usually a dark and uninviting space, there has been arranged an exhibition of stained glass. This is well illuminated by a carefully diffused light which makes it a feature of more than passing interest.
On the threshold to the South Gallery, the visitor will instinctively halt, as he finds he is about to enter a space that in its exits and entrances plays many useful parts. From a central space there radiate niches, each set apart for a certain exhibitive purpose, with its own well-developed decorative scheme. There are no anachronisms of period styles, no unfortunate combinations of color. The whole is one restful harmony, and each part worthy of careful study and critical inspection.
There is no diminution of the dignities of architecture, yet one wonders if this well-considered blending of each niche or room has not, in the perfection of its ensemble, subordinated the individual importance, in many instances, of the rare exhibi
GROSVENOR ATTERBURY, ARCHITECT HOUSE OF PAOLINO GERLI, BRONXVILLE, N. Y.
EUGENE L. LANG, ARCHITECT
presented on previous occasions. The visitor approaches through the usual entrance, now transformed by the termes which flank it, and by a large, white eagle, whose outstretched wings reach across the main doorway. A writer, referring to the decorative features of this entrance, and the fact that the large eagle is the splendidly conceived national bird, suggests that the national motto, E Pluribus Unum, could also be aptly used to indicate the character of the exhibition within.
Along the wide entrance hallway, leading to the South Gallery, which is usually a dark and uninviting space, there has been arranged an exhibition of stained glass. This is well illuminated by a carefully diffused light which makes it a feature of more than passing interest.
On the threshold to the South Gallery, the visitor will instinctively halt, as he finds he is about to enter a space that in its exits and entrances plays many useful parts. From a central space there radiate niches, each set apart for a certain exhibitive purpose, with its own well-developed decorative scheme. There are no anachronisms of period styles, no unfortunate combinations of color. The whole is one restful harmony, and each part worthy of careful study and critical inspection.
There is no diminution of the dignities of architecture, yet one wonders if this well-considered blending of each niche or room has not, in the perfection of its ensemble, subordinated the individual importance, in many instances, of the rare exhibi