(Unbuilt)

Proposed House in Le Touquet

Catalogue No. C0604
Dates of Construction: 1897
Location: Pas-de-Calais, France
Client: John Robinson Whitley
Purpose of Building:Houses
Category:Single
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The design was a wholly fanciful, French‑tinged composition, contemporary with Lutyens’s use of corner oriels at Le Bois des Moutiers, Varengeville.

Description

The design and its presentation is pure fantasy with a French touch; Lutyens was using corner oriels at Le Bois des Moutiers at Varengeville in the same year. (Richardson, 1994, p.39)

Bibliography

Richardson, M. (1994) Sketches by Edwin Lutyens: Drawings from the Collection of Royal INsistute of British Architects (RIBA Drawings Monographs No. 1). London: Wiley.,

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