Beautiful homes. Or, Hints in house furnishing (1878)
Williams, Henry T, Jones, C. S., Mrs · New York, H. T. Williams · leaf 122
beauty; but so few can availthemselves of such an addition to their rooms, that resource has been had tomiserable, bald-looking, stiff and most inelegant substitutes, in default ofcarving, ornaments (?) with mo^t extraordinary achievements of the caipen-ter, in the shape of impossible figures, and… … Fig. 54. 8 114 BEAUTIFUL HOMES. ness of streaked and striped and spotted. To be allowed to cover all thiswith graceful hangings, or elegantly embroidered lambrequin, and find thateven the indisputable Mis. Grundy pronounces it in style, is a satisfaction,indeed. There is no portion of the room…
Interior decoration · Decoration and ornament
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