The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour, & history (1911)
Foley, Edwin · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 177
hitectural treatment, character-istic of the sixteenth century, frequentlydominates the apartment, attracting byits refined simplicity more than do theheavily hooded French chimney-pieces.Italian decorative furnishing waspre-eminently da jpompa, the apprecia-tion of classic form and brilliant… … THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY 123 SEIGNEURIAL SEATS For instance, the antique X forms of seats resigned their positionas appanages of dignity in favour of stiff and stately high-backeds&igneurial and state seats, such as that of Lorenzode Medici; almost identical in its structuraldesign with the…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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