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...White House ought to look as if it had always been there," said Commission Chairman J. Carter Brown, 47, who is also director of the National Gallery of Art. "Like the mansion itself, it should have the feel of a historic Georgian country house. These 18th century Palladian houses were often surrounded by 'dependencies,' as their architects called them-orangeries or other small buildings...
...that is exactly what has now been designed. The visitors' entrance will look like a small white Palladian garden pavilion with floor-to-ceiling French windows between Tuscan columns. The doors and windows will be decorated with delicate grille work. It will be built into a heavily planted earth berm so that it is visible only from the street. The building is scheduled for completion next year, and the entire project could cost about $1 million...
...winner of the 1792 design competition for the proposed new White House. One of those he triumphed over was Thomas Jefferson, who had submitted his entry anonymously. Hoban's vision of the President's house was influenced by one of the finest examples of the English Palladian style, the famous Dublin mansion of the Duke of Leinster...
Perhaps some ancient ghost of feudalism, a deep, fundamental fear of dependence and submission, spooked around the edges of the American's pride of ownership: this place is mine. The proto type of Mr. Blandings' dream house was Monticello, that cool Palladian vision built by the American prince of the Enlightenment, Thomas Jefferson...
...settings are truly lovely-symmetrical Palladian porticoes, marbled rooms with glowing frescoes and statuary, formal gardens opening on cypress-dotted vistas. Losey scatters the action of the opera over every photogenic square foot of them. Characters grope endlessly down pillared corridors, wander around outdoors and are unaccountably set afloat on gondolas. Consecutive scenes shift disconcertingly from nighttime to broad daylight and back again. Most of the music is lip-synched to a prerecorded track; inside or out, wind or rain, we hear the souped-up ambience of the recording studio. The result is that characters who ought to be interacting...