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 272
e of exceedingly delicate and graceful adapta-tion of eighteenth-century design to modern furniture ;the panels of the various pieces formed in walnut-wood, with ebony inlaid, and laid over with box-wood,carved down, so as to show the ebony behind, in ex-quisite cameo-like medallions after Flaxman,… … Octagon Boudoir ~Adams-style • rtefsrs GUlow ^ OF TOWN HOUSES. 217 arranged in panels, hung with blue figured satin,divided by pilasters decorated in shades of blue and£old on maize-coloured silk, the Qreneral tone of theceiling being ivory colour, with the background of theenrichments lightly…
Interior decoration · Furniture
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