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 1102
GRECIAN AND MODERN VILLA FURNITURE. 1079 SuBSECT. 6. Grecian and Modern Furniture for Bed-rooms and Dressing-rooms.2132. Bedsteads. Fig. 1981 is a bedstead ^th a mahogany ogee cornice, in thehollow of which is fixed a small brass or bronzed rod, a, by a bronzed or brass bracket, b,which is placed… … at it on the angle. The curtains are hooked on to the rings in the manner described§ 669, and there are small roses sewed on over each hook, which add much to theeffect. There is a fringed valance inside the cornice. The headcloth and tester arefluted in a particular manner; that is, with one wide…
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