American country houses of to-day; an illustrated account of some excellent houses built and gardens planted during the last few years, showing unmistakable influence of the modern trend in ideals architectural (1915)
Howe, Samuel, 1854- · New York Architectural Book Pub. Co. P. Wenzel and M. Krakow · leaf 357
indebted to thewell-shaped lantern light overhead. At certain well-centered sections of thewalling large jjanels of pastoral scenes appear. They are painted some-Avhat after the fashion of the Watteau and Fragonard school, in soft tonesof silvery giay and translucent white, possessing somewhat the… … VIEWS RADIATE FROM THE UPPER TERRACE, DISLEDSIXG PlfTlRE OF THE LAKE And the object of the vistas is to bring in the outside world. It is a sociological as well as alandscape architectural device. Is not one of the objects of life in the country or elsewhere to developmankind through the amenities…
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