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 1124
walnut, elm, holly, and box were used, painted more or less, and some-times profusely gilt. It does not appear that curtains formed so important a part of theancient bed as they do of the modern one. The chief expense seems to have beenincurred in carving the posts; in the head-boards, which… … 1 102 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. in mind, not merely the great cost of* such carving relatively to the effect produced, butalso that this kind of ornament is more apt to harbour dust, and that it is more difficultto clean, than any other. This also is an argument against the Extensive…
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