Chadsworth Cottage - 2007 Palladio Award Winner
By Terry Kearns 404-550-7397
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Julia over at Hooked on Houses is hosting her "Hooked on Friday's" blog party. This is my 6th try. I'm hooked on Chadsworth Cottage and Chadsworth Columns. I don't have the words to do this post justice. Classic architecture of the highest standard of design and craftsmanship on the beach in my birth state - there is so much I'd like to say but I'm overwhelmed.
Here is what I hope you'll enjoy from the post:
- Chadsworth Columns:Chadsworth's 1.800.COLUMNS has a remarkable website that any design lover will enjoy. It's almost exhausting - hundreds of pictures of columns in remarkable homes - interiors, exteriors, and landscapes.
- Chadsworth Cottage is a classical vision, a labor of love by owner, designer, and craftsmen.
- Owning a column company is one of my ideas of the perfect job.
- My study outline is below the next picture. I think you'll enjoy exploring Chadsworth.
Chadsworth Cottage on the left at Figure 8 Island, North Carolina is a temple to the beach. Amazingly Chadsworth Cottage isn't that big and uses modern materials and techniques to best survive a tough environment.
Photo courtesy Chadsworth's 1.800.COLUMNS
Terry's study outline for this post:
- Chadsworth Cottage is a 2007 Palladio Award winner for New Construction – less than 5,000 sq.ft.
- Christine G. H. Franck Inc the architect / designer. Connections: Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, Georgia Tech: 2006-2007 Harrison Design Associates Visiting Scholar)
- Chadsworth Cottage slideshows: under construction, drawings and finished.
- Chadsworth Columns has acres of breathtaking picutures of columns used in magnificaent interiors, exteriors, landscapes. Not all are mansions.
- Column "parts" and orders defined and illustrated.
- For comparion: another beach classic by Robert A. M. Stern at Seaside. Atlanta connections: The Mansion and Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank
- Compare the classical estate-type beach house at Figure 8, to the classical-vernacular, new urban beach house at Seaside.
- From Quinlan Terry: "How can you find men to do your class of work these days?' as if men no longer can or want to produce skilled work. The truth is that whenever there is good work to be done there are men to do it...Generally, I find that the more intricate the detail, the more willing the tradesmen are to take on the work."
The Chadsworth Slideshows don't work so well in Firefox.
This is the shoreside view.
Photo courtesy Chadsworth's 1.800.COLUMNS
Off the sand and onto the cool brick floor.
Photo courtesy Chadsworth's 1.800.COLUMNS
Photo courtesy Chadsworth's 1.800.COLUMNS
The Chadworth Cottage slide show has floor plans, preliminary drawings, and construction pictures to show how things came togher.
Photo courtesy Chadsworth's 1.800.COLUMNS
Photo courtesyChadsworth's 1.800.COLUMNS
