Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 210
, thearticle of first impor-tance in a bedroom isnaturally the bed. Ithas been the habit,since the days whenthe bedroom was al-most a room curtainedoff from the great hall,to have the bed a largeand prominent object.We have seen what asplendid erection it be-came in the days of theRenaissance, and… … Modem Gothic Bedstead. 206 ART DECORATION APPLIED TO FURNITURE. the high head-board as the style, to-day they sell it with the low one, andto-morrow the pendulum of change will swing back again. But here againfashion has no more right to intrude than it has to intrude upon the foun-dations of the…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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