The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating (1851)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 · New York : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway ; Philadelphia : Geo S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street · leaf 462
n cornice. The superior effect of this ceiling arises, partly, from itscanying the eye upwards, and thus recognizing the principleof perpendicular rather than horizontal support, as well ascausing it to appear higher than it really is; and, also, froma certain any lightness, found in a ceiling in… … [Fig. 181. Interior of Bed-room in the Gothic Style.] 25 386 COUNTRY HOUSES. In Fig. 181 (from a sketch by Mr. Davis), a more charac-teristic mode of finishing bed-rooms in the upper story ofcountry houses is shown. In this, the f«>nr ribs shown arethe raftere of the roof, planed, and stained…
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