The book of American interiors, prepared by Charles Wyllys Elliott from existing houses; with preliminary essays and letterpress descriptions; illustrated in heliotype (1876)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · Boston, J.R. Osgood and Co. · leaf 48
castle was giving way to the mansion.With peace and security the arts asserted themselves. The formsand styles of the Italian Renaissance had penetrated to England,and a style of architecture and decoration grew up there suited toits domestic life, which we now know as the Tudor Gothic. Anexcellent… … of velvet. Chairs, too, were brought from Venice, and were some-times enriched with gilding. Fig. 16. By this time, too, the parlor, or talking-room, had appearedin the houses of the noble and the rich, which was a resort for 42 THE DINING ROOM. dames and squires when the dinner had advanced beyond…
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