Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers (1918)
Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company; Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company · leaf 79
possesses the kind ofshowy magnificence by which the multitude is impressed, and for thatreason its influence was dominant long after Napoleon met his Water-loo. It is the least French of all the French styles, and copied classicornament boldly and baldly instead of adapting it to modern…
