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 532
s andconstant use in this way, in the finest Gothic mansions abroad,have given it a kind of right there which it has not intrinsi-cally, by its origin. It is so much richer and more domesticthan strictly Gothic fmniture, that it will always be preferredto the latter by most persons. For residences… … [Fig. 284.] 452 COUNTRY HOUSES. Elizabethan furniture is too expensive for cottages, but avery simple and elicai) modification of it—which is of S^\^88origin—has now become common in the cabinet-shops, isafforded at very low prices, and is particularly well suited tocheap cottages and farm-houses…
Architecture, Domestic
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