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 316
550 is an ironing-board, or flap table, which, in a cottage, may seive for various u =efulpurposes, and, where the living rooms are small, will be found a most valuable substitute … 294 COTTAGE,FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 55a for a portable table. The piece of board, a, is made fast to the wall, either by holdfasts,or by being nailed or screwed to wooden bricks. The flap, b d, is hinged to it, and,when raised up, is supported in its place by the hinged folding legs, of which…
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