Principles of home decoration, with practical examples (1903)
Wheeler, Candace, 1827-1923 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 200
e furniturefrom the very first, and it easily ex-plains the excellences and finenessesof its fashioning. There is an interesting house inFlushing, Long Island, where suchfurniture still stands in the roomswhere it was put together in 1664,and where it is so fitted to spaces ithas filled during the… … COLONIAL MANTEL AND ENGLISH HOB-GRATE (SITTING-ROOM IN MRS, CANDACEWHEELERS HOUSE) FURNITURE 169 It is this kind of interest whichattaches us to colonial furniture andadds to the value of its beauty andcareful adaptation to human con-venience. In the roomy high boyswhich we find in old houses there…
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