Inglenook
An inglenook or chimney corner is a recess that adjoins a fireplace. The term "inglenook" comes from "ingle", an old Scots word (derived from the Gaelic aingeal) for a domestic fire, and "nook".[1][2]
The inglenook originated as a partially enclosed hearth area, appended to a larger room. The hearth was used for cooking, and its enclosing alcove became a natural place for people seeking warmth to gather. With changes in building design, kitchens became separate rooms, while inglenooks were retained in the living space as intimate warming places – subsidiary spaces within larger rooms.[3]
Inglenooks were prominent features of shingle-style architecture and characteristic of Arts and Crafts architecture, but began to disappear with the advent of central heating.[3][4] Prominent American architects who employed the feature included Greene and Greene, Henry Hobson Richardson, and Frank Lloyd Wright. British architect Richard Norman Shaw significantly influenced Richardson.[5] Adolf Loos introduced inglenooks to Viennese homes in his effort to promote Anglo-American domestic culture.[6]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Ingle". Dictionaries of the Scots Language. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
- ↑ "Ingle-nook". Oxford English Dictionary (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- 1 2 Holt, Stephen (13 March 2002). "The Inglenook: A History of Hearth & Home". This Old House. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ "What Was the Arts and Crafts Movement?". Historic England. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ Flaherty, Carolyn; Conley, Katharine (November 1980). "Cosy Corners". Old-House Journal: 178–179.
- ↑ Sarnitz, August (2016). Gössel, Peter (ed.). Adolf Loos (in German). Köln: Taschen. p. 27. ISBN 9783836544405.
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