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 342
nest kind of register stove,with its hideously designed ornament and burnishedsteel mouldings. There is no absolute reason why most of thesearticles of domestic use should not be made good inform and shape, honest and strong in construction, andat the same cost as that now paid for them,… … OF TOWN HOUSES. 271 general cheap things ; perhaps, even if he were willingto do this, he might well answer that the public wouldnot continue to buy of him, and would demand in hiswork, as in that of most other trades, continual noveltyand continual change at the lowest possible cost. I cannot help…
Interior decoration · Furniture
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