ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the style of individual historicist fantasy by the late 1890s, to breed with decorative role-playing. Over the next thirty years Voysey was to satisfy the demand that his tasteful simplicities of steep roofs and gables would become accepted as the Standard English house of the twentieth century. In all the expanding cities of the Continent the fashionable style was the futuristic fantasy of the Art Nouveau, fashion of the next two decades. Constructed to a consistent policy of high decorative standards, Port Sunlight was the perfect anticipation of the utopian architectural vision of William Morris's News From Nowhere, where a largely timber-framed revival of Tudor medieval domestic architecture proposed for everyone. Indeed domestic fantasy has become positively modish, patronized appropriately enough by the politician Michael Heseltine with his summer-house at Thenford in Oxfordshire. With even more assurance Terry has since designed and built three 'skeuomorph' villas along the edge of Regent's Park.
