Architecture : an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 30
ich furniture with legs like those of bulls, of carved ivory, a fashion which has persisted ever since. A class of archaic rock-hewn tombs at Gizeh and Sakkara had their ceilings cut to resemble small palm trunks, that is, I suppose, into a series of half-rounds like a fragment in the British… … 28 ARCHITECTURE This is the recessing of the wall-surfaces in asuccession of vertical channels. This tradi-tion was constant during the first five or sixdynasties, and left its mark in long subsequenttime. It was elaborated and fixed in struc-tures built of crude brick, but the idea ofvertical…
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