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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 514

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 514 — [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… … [Fig. 238. cushions or pillows rest. Theeffect is gi-aceful and j)retty.We cannot say as much forFig. 240—a couch in the samestyle. K the reader -will turnback for a moment and com-pare the two, he will see howawkward and destitute of Fig. 239. Tliis has a central piece,stuffed, against which the

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