The more suggestive of out-of-doors the
happier is the effect of the sun room. Occasionally one sees a rare
house where a glass enclosed garden opens from one of the living-rooms.
There is a house in Nineteenth Street that has such an enclosed garden,
built around a wall fountain. The garden opens out of the great
two-storied music-room. Lofty windows flank a great door, and fill the
end of the room with a luminous composition of leaded glass. Through the
door you enter the garden, with its tiled floor, its glass ceiling, and
its low brick retaining walls. The wall fountain is placed exactly in
front of the great door, and beneath it there is a little semi-circular
pool bordered with plants and glittering with goldfish. Evergreens are
banked against the brick walls, and flat reliefs are hung just under the
glass ceiling. The garden is quite small, but takes its place as an
important part of the room. It rivals in interest the massive Gothic
fireplace, with its huge logs and feudal fire irons.
The better silversmiths are doing much to encourage the development of
indoor fountains. They display the delightful fountains of our young
American sculptors, fountains that would make any garden room notable.
There are so many of these small bronze fountains, with Pan piping his
irresistible tune of outdoors; children playing with frogs or geese or
lizards or turtles; gay little figures prancing in enchanted rings of
friendly beasties.
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