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 355
in turning, or otherwisechanging his position. Every person who has been long confined to a bed knows that thissimple contrivance is the most valuable part of a sick mans bedstead ; and it is onereason why the beds of all elderly people should have bedposts and testers, because fromthe centre cross… … 657. Couch Beds may be described as sofas used as beds; and, for our parts, we preferthem to either the press or the half-tester bedstead. They are very common in Franceand Germany. Fig. 693 is a Design, by Mr. William Mallet of Dublin, for an iron couchbed frame. The head is cast in one piece, the…
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