Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 123
nearly as well have been built ofreeds. With the exception of bookcases, which, owing to the scarcity ofbooks even then, did not enjoy much increase of amplitude, every articleof furniture received some variation from its past standard, and many al-together novel ones were produced from… … Louis Quatorze Drawing-room. Draperies were generously employed in the Louis Quatorze, and hadbecome wonderfully fine both as hangings and as coverings to seats. Theproduction of these tapestries had, many years before, been transferred toFrance by the Gobelins, Dutch makers of hangings, and…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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