faville's

Updated: May 17, 2025

It's been some years, of course. At Mr. Faville's your wife's father's house." Stillman paled for the briefest of moments, but he recovered himself cleverly. "Mrs. Richards of course! How do you do? It has been some years." "I'm going to Mr. Flint's at Yolanda," said Claire, "to take some dictation. He's been ill, you know." "Ill? No, I hadn't heard it. Nothing serious, I hope."

Charles Caldwell Dobie - The Blood Red Dawn

On the way to the second half-court we had a chance to see the South Wall at close range, with its rich ornamented doorways, its little niches and fountains devised to make it varied and gay. Those little elephant heads were another sign of Faville's careful attention to ornamental detail. And the coloring gave warmth to the background, contrasting with the deep green of the planting.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

In getting the Exposition from paper to reality, they had succeeded in making it seem to be the expression of one mind. Even in the development of the planting the architects had their say. Here landscape gardening was actually a part of the architecture. Faville's wall, for example, was built with the understanding that its bareness was to be relieved with masses of foliage, creating shadows.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth