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 1096
ly, to introduceone or two of a subordinate description as articles of curiosity, and which, like all otherarticles of curiosity, do not come within the pale of regular criticism. On this prin-ciple, Chinese and Indian firescreens are allowable, even though there should be noother article of… … in the style of their frames, with that of the room in which they are placed. A pier-glassplaced opposite the chimney-glass always has an excellent effect, as they reflect one another ;so that the size of the room is doubled from whichever end the spectator directs his view.A black ebony plinth,…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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