Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 131
h furniture modified by many other influences than those ofdirect art—convenience, the fashion of garments, the habits of life, mak-ing themselves felt quite as much as the inspiring power of Greek lintelor Gothic arch; and the careful reconstructer can, as has been said, buildagain the whole… … Louis Seize Chair. LOUIS SEIZE. 127 one side, just beginning to be held in check on the other by the new ideasborn of disgust for courtly vice—and for such wanton and useless expendi-ture as that where the mere hangings of the bed presented by MadameDe Montespan to the bride of the royal prince,…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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