Modern Homes: Select Examples of Dwelling Houses (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Though so much has been done in the way of illustration of Modern Homes, no excuse is needed for the production of a series of typical homes, executed in recent years, which have come under the writer's personal observation and which Show some of the best efforts of the ablest modern architects. The aim has been to give truthful records of what has been actually done and no merely fanciful pictures, and almost without exception every house has been studied and described after completion. The architects who have designed them would be the last to claim that they are perfect or that they do not present many points for possible improvement, but it may be claimed that they are all the result of genuine artistic effort. None of the designers can maintain that they would have been possible without the study and observation of modern design as well as of old types, and therefore these examples are published with some confidence that they will influence and guide others towards the attainment of a higher ideal. It is quite obvious that to cover the whole range of Modern Homes in size and cost would be impossible in a moderate sized book, and those chiefly illustrated are of the simpler sort of homes such as are likely to prove interesting to people of moderate means.

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