HOUSE
at
ASWAN
EGYPT
1905
For Dr H. E. Leigh
Canney.
The materials are
roughcast for the walls edged with red tile coping and stone dressings for the
windows.
There is a double-storey hall and drawing-room. The roof is flat.
Photo published in Wendy Hitchmough, CFA VOYSEY, p. 218.
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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Aswan, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Photo by Jonathan Dawson, 2013
Photo by Jonathan Dawson, 2013
Photo by Jonathan Dawson, 2013
Photo by Jonathan Dawson, 2013
Photo by Jonathan Dawson, 2013
Photo by Jonathan Dawson, 2013
Photo by Jonathan Dawson, 2013
Photo by Jonathan Dawson, 2013
Photo by Jonathan Dawson, 2013
Drawings from The British Architect, 9th February 1906.
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Drawings from The British Architect, 16th February 1906.
Images courtesy of RIBA Drawings Collection.
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of British Architects.
Photographs, drawings, perspectives and other design
patterns
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Photographs Collection.
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This is apparently the only Voysey house that was actually constructed outside the UK. It was still intact externally and internally in 2013 (Jonathan Dawson).
Drawings in the RIBA "show a two-storey, rendered house with Voysey's characteristic stone-dressed windows and a typical round-headed front door recessed within a porch. Voysey gave the house a flat roof with a castellated parapet to take account of the climate, but the prospect of a house without a chimney must have been inconceivable to him because a massive chimney-like structure projected out from the front elevation, apparently housing only cupboards and a larder inside. Voysey's office expenses for the commission were unusualIy scant: the house was dated October 1905 and there were no expenses for client visits or for typing the specification. The only expenses for the house at Aswan were two relatively large sums for postage in 1906, suggesting that the extent of Voysey's involvement was limited to the provision of drawings. Nevertheless there were photographs of the house, newly built, in his collection." – Wendy Hitchmough, CFA Voysey (Phaidon, 1995), p.218.
References:
The British Architect, 9th February & 16th February 1906.
Stuart Durant, CFA Voysey, London 1992, p. 86.
Wendy Hitchmough, CFA VOYSEY, London 1995, pp. 217-8.
Jonathan Dawson, 'Voysey's Aswan adventure', The Orchard, no. 2, 2013, pp. 66-7.
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