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 1099
desirable, in every house, whether of the poor man or of therich, to preserve the colour of such expensive articles as window curtains and carpets,and to exclude flies, which totally destroy gilt picture-frames, and gnats, which are apersonal annoyance, all houses that can afiord it ought to have… … Fig. 1979 is a drawingroom curtaui with a fringed valance attached to gilt brassrings, which move along a wooden pole sheathed in gilt brass. A silk drop is attachedto each ring, and from each ring the fringe forms a swag (curve). The curtains drawbehind the valance on a rod, as before described, §…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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