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Jaipur column

…the capital was offered by the Maharajah of Jaipur in 1912. The cream stone column, on its double pedestal of red and cream, supports a stone egg, from which flowers…

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Official bungalows

…1917 the Delhi Committee rejected these, as, Hussey suggests, Lutyens intended and expected. He did not want ‘the anguish of designing jerry-villas’ and, instead, was given to design all the…

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Temporary War Shrine

…the same to ring the world. OPQRST is what I have put on the model – six consecutive letters from the alphabet. A long inscription would not have the same…

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Cenotaph

…prototype in such features as the omission of the flag draped over the coffin. Lutyens was unable to use painted stone flags as he wished but he did resist the…

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All India War Memorial Arch

…building, carries a massive, blocky domed attic above the principal cornice – unlike the Arc de Triomphe to which it is comparable in size. A plume of smoke was intended…

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Britannic House

…Moorgate, the Circus’s one masterpiece: Lutyens’s BRITANNIC HOUSE, for the Anglo- Persian Oil Company (later B.P.), 1921-5. Done with care and lavish expense, comparable with his near-contemporary Midland Bank, Poultry….

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Baroda House

…from a domed entrance, so as to relate to the hexagonal plan of Princes’ Place, but it has none of the charm which usually associated with Lutyens’s domestic work. Not…

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Lucknow

…took him to Lucknow in 1921 and 1922 but nothing came of his proposals. (Amery et al, 1981, cat no.478) Bibliography Amery, C., Richardson, M. and Stamp, G., (1981) Lutyens,…

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Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House

…Room tables (which are like those in the kitchen at Castle Drogo). The garden was planned by Gertrude Jekyll. The Dolls’ House first went on display at the British Empire…