Principles of home decoration, with practical examples (1903)
Wheeler, Candace, 1827-1923 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 258
is in the carpet, whichis allowed to play upwards, as it were,into draperies, and furniture, andfrieze, none of which show the samedepth and intensity. To the concen-tration of light in the one great win-dow we must give the credit of theRembrandt-like effect of the wholeinterior. If the walls were… … FURNITURE 217 Then, again, the amount of livingand brilliant colour is exactly pro-portioned to that of sombre brown,the red holding its value by strength,as against the greatly preponderatingmass of dark. On the whole thismay be called a picture-room, andyet it is distinctly liveable,…
Interior decoration
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