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 512
. The high four-postbedstead, with curtains, still common in England, is almostentirely laid aside in the United States for the French bedstead,low, and without curtains, as in Fig. 191. Indeed, for themajority of country houses, of the first class, we prefer Hen-nesseys painted cottage furnitm-e… … [Fig. 233.] [Fig. 234.] 432 COUNTEY HOUSKS. represented in Fig. 233, luul another in the French taste inFig. 234. ModeiTi French fiu^iitnre^ and especially that in the style ofLouis Quatorse^ stands much higher in general estimation inthis country than any other. Its union of lightness,…
Architecture, Domestic
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