Had I been the architect Thomas Veal, tasked in the year 1859 with designing a building to house the Philomathean Literary Society on the campus of Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina, this is what I would have designed, too.
Yes, by gosh, we MUST make more of an effort to create a beautiful buildings. Or get on architectural review committees and veto the ugly ones. Bill Bryson wrote that in America, you have to drive somewhere to find beauty.
I can't enlarge the photo enough, but it appears the pilaster capitals have open space between the scroll "wings" and connection to the pilaster??? I've never seen that.
They are "pierced Corinthians", Pelham. The home owned by designer Carolyne Roehm in Charleston, SC, named Chisolhm, has them, and I'm sure there are others, but you rarely see them. My friend, Bronson, has a pair of salvaged Corinthians - perhaps the best I have ever seen, and they have pierced volutes. You have a good eye, my friend:-)
Never heard of Mr Veal but I like his work. I think he opened a picture book of Roman Buildings and pieced it together but at any rate it turned out good and great.
Yes, by gosh, we MUST make more of an effort to create a beautiful buildings. Or get on architectural review committees and veto the ugly ones. Bill Bryson wrote that in America, you have to drive somewhere to find beauty.
I can't enlarge the photo enough, but it appears the pilaster capitals have open space between the scroll "wings" and connection to the pilaster??? I've never seen that.
They are "pierced Corinthians", Pelham. The home owned by designer Carolyne Roehm in Charleston, SC, named Chisolhm, has them, and I'm sure there are others, but you rarely see them. My friend, Bronson, has a pair of salvaged Corinthians - perhaps the best I have ever seen, and they have pierced volutes. You have a good eye, my friend:-)
Volute...that's the word I couldn't think of!!!
Never heard of Mr Veal but I like his work. I think he opened a picture book of Roman Buildings and pieced it together but at any rate it turned out good and great.