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 320
e pur-poses or use, if well drawn and good in design ; wherethe few can only afford to purchase, at any remunera-tive price, the more elaborate pieces of painted faienceand porcelain, which are the result of long years oflabour and infinite knowledge, gained by much patienceand innumerable… … OF TOWN HOUSES. 255 content to follow out the simpler work, but aim at pro-ducing elaborate paintings, often more or less adaptedfrom inferior copies, and thus, as a rule, invariably failfrom insufficient knowledge or want of power in draw-ing and design. This is more especially noticeable infigure…
Interior decoration · Furniture
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