The Silversmith Cottage, Vanderbilt Road, Biltmore Forest, North Carolina
When it comes to your silver pieces, do you prefer them dapped (not dappled), waterfalled, or hammered? The silversmith who built this enchanting cottage and studio liked to design with plenty of decorative and whimsical choices. { 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 } It's obvious from his pitchers to his weathervane. Many of the cottage's original and charming 1927 details are still intact. William Waldo Dodge, Jr. (1895-1971) settled in Asheville, North Carolina in the 1920's -- right as the town of Biltmore Forest was being created as an idealized European village, as I described last week . { source /Mr. If It Were Mine} In addition to silversmithing, Dodge was an architect who embraced fairytale Tudor and French Normandy style wholeheartedly. When he designed the mansion below for William W. Knight in 1927, Edith Vanderbilt must have been delighted that his vision tied in so well with hers. { source } He designed his own cottage less than a mile away at the same time. { source } When
