Decoration & furniture of town houses; a series of Cantor lectures delivered before the Society of arts, 1880, amplified and enl. (1881)
Edis, Robert W. (Robert William), 1839-1927 · New York, Scribner and Welford · leaf 206
ould be a simplecupboard with sliding, not folding, doors, with shelvesarranged for coats, and a sliding rack for hats, a few OF TOWN HOUSES. 157 hooks or pegs above for sticks and umbrellas, and thetop may be made of unpolished oak or other hardwood, or marble, to act as a serving table. Portieres… … stuff or silk over it for colour—which will be foundconvenient and useful on occasions when you receiveguests ; at each end might be arranged receptacles forplants and flowers, which are always grateful andpleasant to look at. The staircase of a town house is generally a coldand dreary approach to…
Interior decoration · Furniture
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