The inferior sex have cast off, for the time, thehabiliments of their daily calling, and donned the dress jackets and the varnishedboots of the ■m^-r^ZwXwvt deiiii-toilette. The grace and elegance of the surroundings,no less than the fact that it is the ladies audience chamber, would exact… … ■ INLAID COMMODE, I.OLIS X\I. ^r\Lli. Such a room maybe handsome or itmay be merely pretty,according to its placein the scale of draw-ing rooms; but in nocase can it afford tobe showy. Therewas a tendency a fewyears ago, greatl)-encouraged by lady-writers on decorativeart, to overload draw-ing…
Interior decoration · Furniture
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