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 514
popular favor.* Figs. 235, 236, and 237, are specimens of light drawing-roomchaii-s in the modern French style. There is just at the * At tlie warehouse of M. A. Roux, Broadway, may be found a large collectionof furniture for the drawing-room, library, etc.—the most tasteful designs of… … [Fig. 23.5.] [Fig. 23G.] [Fig. 237.] present nioment, a rage for very light and fancifiillj carvedchairs for drawing-rooms, far more elaborate than these; andthey are certainly remarkable for their great combination of lightness and strength.Fig. 238 is a drawing-room sofa in the LouisQuatorze…
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