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 853
garden, including the lake, the knoll to the left, andthe promontory, crowned by the colossal terminal statue. In the centre of the dining-room is a fixed circular table, on a principle which will be shown under Villa Furniture,capable, in its ordinary form, of dining eight persons ; and, by… … VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 831 side of movable boards, covered, like the rest of the floor, by the carpet, but distinguishedby their adjoining the claws of the column which supports the table. By pressing onthese parts slightly with the foot, the master or mistress can ring a servants bell,…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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