Izor, Estelle Peel · Boston, New York [etc.] Atkinson, Mentzer and company · leaf 173
nd XXI.A table should be selected because its height and lineof construction conform to the other objects aboutit, as in Plate XIX. No matter how beautifulan article of furniture may be in itself, if it is outof proportion and harmony with other objects inthe room or foreign to their character, it… … PLATE XX could not have been gained had the chair in PlateXXI been low or broad, or had the top of thecabinet been covered with many ornaments. Manysmall objects placed on the top of a book-case oron a mantel appear like so many spots which swarmin an unrelated way. The over-crowding of amantel…
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