nd common-sense. In the Elizabethan times, and down to the early part of the 18th Century, oak was the wood chiefly employed in the bedstead, and the construction was invariably massive as befitted such a wood, and more or less overladen with harsh and un- .sympathetic carving. The thick, heavy… … Ilr;. 54. f>\K \VM AND now rO BEAUTIFY THEM.
Interior decoration · Furniture
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