Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York, Duffield & Company · leaf 146
raking lines of thestair are always difficult to manage, and produce un-gainly spaces, shapes and combinations. The bestare the simplest, and ones closely built in are to befound in many modern houses, hiding from the spec-tator all the sloping hand-rails, wainscots, base-boards and the like.… … AN EFFECTIVE NEWEL POST lines of the Jacobean houses of Great Britain. Insuch a house as this there should be no elevators norother modern conveniences except, perhaps, theelectric light, which may be admitted to noble man-sions in England, chiefly that it may the betterilluminate the artistic…
Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration
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