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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17296, 7 November 1921, Page 5

American architect* are travelling up and down rural England searching the old-world villages for centuriesold examples of the country's domestic architecture, with the view of reproducing them in the United States, where original or copied specimens are in great demand. In the quaint old village of Drayton, Berkshire, recently, an American visitor stared in admiration at the oak - panels of an ancient farmhouse parlour. ' ; These wooden walls," he exeliaimetl. "would fetch £-500 in my country." The secretary of the Society of Architects told a reporter that many architects come from the States to study in British schools of art. "Americans, like everyone else abroad, are not ' blind to the fact that England possesses the best domestic architecture in the world," he Ihiring the summer there has been a I record demand by American visitors in J London for. old furniture,