Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 181
e can be used for surface decora-tion tempts designers to provide surfaces for its decora-tion, in such structural features as capitals and corbels,at the cost of the modelling which is so much more ex- 166 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE pressive and so much more troublesome, when a merecushion will do… … A BYZANTINE CORBEL.Henry Ives Cobb. Architect. GLIMPSES OF WESTERN ARCHITECTURE Y^y upon so much more seldom, would excite neither morenor less surprise if they were encountered in the streetsof any older American town. But from what has beensaid it will be seen that in every department of…
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