Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 280
fthe brothers Adam and of Louis XVI. Instead of the luxuriant curves of shell-work which had preceded, it employed classical motives, such as mythological fig-ures, griffins, urns, medallions, and slender garlands of husks or of drapery. 254 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC This elaborate and tenuous… … Figure 214. Interior door at the WoodlaiuCourtesy of Ogden Codman 1788 treatment of mantels and other features, but not such full-size details as wouldenable men unfamiliar with the style to carve the ornament successfully. Thecement stucco and plaster compositions developed by the Adams and others…
