An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 1035
liola, and various imitations of marble and stone, are common on the Con-tinent, and especially in the villas of Italy, see § 1916. Mosaic pavement is alsofrequently used. An improved description of pavement of this kind, invented by Mr.Wright of Shelton, has already been mentioned. Figs. 1810 and… … for halls, with angle pieces, a, and centre pieces, b, in order to complete a square figure,as in fi! 1812, whatever may be the dimensions of the floor to be covered. The angleand centre pieces are supposed to be of a different and darker colour than the ground, orplain part, of the figured tiles.…
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