Monday, October 31, 2022

Artful Antics 1901

It is time to sort out books today…and came across this one.

Pic of cover…

Trash ? or Treasure?

Cut to end… (Of course treasure…)

It is inscribed,To Elizabeth Venable Mason with apologies for this Lion,….n.

Such unique names, can be Googled and found…

which lead me to her stone house, built about 1900 right her in Atlanta.  Meaning, this is an old book I picked up at some yard sale.

https://architecturetourist.blogspot.com/2011/03/stonehenge-is-mansion-and-church-on.html

And now, I get to do a road trip to appreciate this old stone house, ca 1900, build from Stone Mt rocks, … how random…

this old book, could be ignored, this old stone house could be ignored, but, together, they come alive, with the living people that lived and loved there.

Why drop this dime here? Well, look at the stone house… 

Do you see the way all the projected wings create LIGHT ON TWO SIDES, in all the major rooms?  Just a bit of a bump out, and magic happens!

Compare this to the pin wheel house, that does this in a more extreme way…