Proposed Hotel, France
Ultimately unbuilt, Lutyens’s Varengeville hotel project comprised a square central hall with corridors radiating to main wings set in a diamond plan, known today through surviving plans, elevations, and perspectives in the RIBA collection.
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Description
Datable to c.1908 when Lutyens again visited the Mallets at Varengeville, rather than to his first visits in 1897-1900. The style of the drawing is also closer to that of his Castle Drogo sketches. It is unlikely that the scheme was even executed.
Plans, elevations and perspectives are held at RIBA, showing a building comprising a square central hall, with corridors radiating off this to the main wings of the hotel which are arranged in the shape of a diamond pattern about the central hall. (Amery et al, 1981, Cat no.476)
Bibliography
Amery, C., Richardson, M. and Stamp, G., (1981) Lutyens, the Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944): Hayward Gallery London, 18 November 1981 – 31 January 1982. London: Arts Council of Great Britain.
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