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Art decoration applied to furniture (1877)

Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 210

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han fatiguing the patients eye,with some likelihood of finally inducing sleep as the eye wanders alongthe track of the pattern. Under this treatment the pictures of the roomwill be hung upon the diapered portion suspended from nails in its nar-row upper edging, and there will be the brackets for… … wood, which, however,is unlikely to be thecase. For furniture, 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…

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