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 354
ork. Instead of the so-called mediaeval coronse, andelaborate wrought and twisted brass and bronze gase-liers and brackets, utterly out of place in almost everyhouse or room, and, generally, extravagantly expensive,why cannot we have the simpler forms of the laterJacobean days, in which use and… … OF TOWN HOUSES. 279 therefore, will be found most serviceable and satisfac-tory, and it is better to have the plainest objects whichare good in outline, and fitted for the purpose, thanthe elaborate forms twisted and curled into all mannerof curious shapes, which may be called mediaeval or1 Queen…
Interior decoration · Furniture
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