Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 398
ncernedthemsehes miich aboiit economy of material or labor in stone-cut-ting. Every stone, as it cornes from the CjuaiTy, is practically a paral-lelopipedon; if, therefore, we wish this stone to hâve a projectionanywhere on its face, the rest of the face must be eut away to leavethe desired… … KL ■M; ■w-gdSSlI^S^SJVi.^^aBi would be avoided by having the joint at D instead of E. TheGreeks, in placing their joint at E, considered, not without reason,that every pier or column should hâve a firm footing upon theground, and they so treated their base-mouldings, therefore, as toexpress this…
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