Art principles in house, furniture, and village building; an exposition of designing principles which every house builder, furniture user, and village dweller should know (1921)
Clark, Arthur Bridgman, 1866-1948 · Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press · leaf 45
roperly have a wide base and taper toa narrower end, but then a superfluousturnip-shaped drop is added as an an-ticlimax. The basement siding is of boards,above shingles are used, and the gableglories in fish-scale shingles in onepart and in tile-like squares in the peak.This poor house has to… … Fig. 81. The Cubberley bouse; corner view. The motive underlying all of thismeaningless intricacy, from the scroll-sawed posts at the bottom of the stepsto the gable finial, was the desire toturn wood-working machiner\-—turn-ing lathes, scroll-saws, molding stick-ers, and the like—to some…
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