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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 467

An illustration from 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, leaf 467 — mouldings, so as to form rich borders to thedoors and windows, are all particularly worthy of the attentionof the artist of genius, who wishes, out of good materials in thepast, to glean something towards forming a style suited to thepresent time. In Fig. 182—a sketch for an interior in the Norman… … [Fig. 183. Norman Chiraney-Piece.] clumsy column, and rather barbarous, zigzag moulding of theNorman style, we would, however, substitute the twistedpillar and the more elegant foliage decoration of the trueKomanesque school. At the same time, while we would avoidthe heavy proportions of many of…

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