Here is The Chimney Corner, what could be a cozier name...
Tea Rooms in 1922, No. 3
Here is The Chimney Corner, what could be a cozier name...
A wisdom in enjoying happy things
I've just finished the main parts of the brilliant Mark Girouard's book The Victorian Country House. After describing Philip Webb's somewhat tortured work on the house called Standen in Sussex (finished c1894) and of how he typically would deny himself nice food, Dr Girouard writes,
Standen House, from its official website, https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/standen-house-and-garden :
One can't help feeling that Webb would have been a happier man and a greater architect if he had helped himself to more strawberries and cream.About Dr Girouard, truly the best writer I've ever even tried on the history of houses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Girouard . He's obviously both brilliant and very diligent in his research; almost the only house history books I buy, read cover to cover, and always keep are by him.
Standen House, from its official website, https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/standen-house-and-garden :
Tea Rooms in 1922, No. 2
From a tea room booklet put
out in 1922 by the Woman's Home Companion magazine publisher.
Here is St Andrew's Tea Room in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time actually on top of a skyscraper!
Here is St Andrew's Tea Room in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time actually on top of a skyscraper!
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