This was the most innovative phase of his career. The bulk of Lutyens' early work consisted of private houses in an Arts and Crafts style, strongly influenced by Tudor architecture and the vernacular styles of south-east England. One of his assistants in the 1890s was Maxwell Ayrton. Hudson was a great admirer of Lutyens' style and commissioned Lutyens for a number of projects, including Lindisfarne Castle and the Country Life headquarters building in London, at 8 Tavistock Street. Lutyens' fame grew largely through the popularity of the new lifestyle magazine Country Life created by Edward Hudson, which featured many of his house designs.
This "natural" style was to define the "English garden" until modern times. This combined style, of the formal with the informal, exemplified by brick paths, herbaceous borders, and with plants such as lilies, lupins, delphiniums and lavender, was in contrast to the very formal bedding schemes favoured by the previous generation in the 19th century. The "Lutyens-Jekyll" garden had hardy shrubbery and herbaceous plantings within a structural architecture of stairs and balustraded terraces.
SIR EDWIN LANDSEER LUTYENS PROFESSIONAL
It was the beginning of a professional partnership that would define the look of many Lutyens country houses. In 1896 he began work on a house for Jekyll at Munstead Wood near Godalming, Surrey. During this work, he met the garden designer and horticulturalist Gertrude Jekyll. He began his own practice in 1888, his first commission being a private house at Crooksbury, Farnham, Surrey.
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