Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 31
nternal arrangement should be upset by the studied regularity of the exterior. But the world in general so keenly desire symmetrical arrangement, that we see houses every day with false windows, simply out of deference to public taste. One method of introducing symmetry into an orna- ment which as… … series hrf spears composing a railing be interrupted by a fasces or a pillar surmounted by a vase, the fasces or the pillar will form an intersection. So with the pilasters which break at regular intervals the continuity of a balustrade, like that with which Perrault has crowned
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