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 508
in Fisr. 219. The contrast of horizontal and curved lines, theproportion, and the details of this sofa, are nearly perfect, as a FURNTTUEE. m … combination of graceful outline and excellent adaptation.Even the footstool which accompanies it (always a ratherdifficult subject) is designed with the same purity of form anddetail. A classical sofa, in theFrench taste, is shownin Fig. 220. Though tasteful andpleasing, it will not bearcomparison…
Architecture, Domestic
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