The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 144
stands the heat and radiates better than anyother material. Reproductions of old work areapt to be better in design than the modernproduct, but this rule is not without exceptions. Toward the latter part of the seventeenthcentury coal began to be used, and the Englishwood-burning fireplaces of the… … an added advantage,grates, and a few ofthe modern exam-ples, are excellentin design. The prin-cipal trouble with allthis ironwork, boththe fire back and thegrate, was the ten-dency to overcrowdit with cheap orna-mentation. Restfulsimplicity wearsbetter and becomesless tiresome on longacquaintance.…
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