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 509
or divan,but which are so contrived, that the seat draws out, so as toform a comfortable bed in a moment, and with very littletrouble. They are particularly convenient in a house where thenumber of bed-rooms is limited—or as seats for dressing-rooms, enabling the mistressof the house, when… … FUKNITUEE, 429 place to sofa-tables—as the latter, scattered here and there in aroom, afford various gathering-places for little conversation par-ties—while the centre-table draws all talkers to a single focus. As the centre-table is to i;s the emblem of the family circle,and the sofa-table that of…
Architecture, Domestic
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