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 927
Owing to this,too, the screen, fig. 1593 (which is asection on the line C D), is perha])smore decidedly expressed as such tothe eye, at the very first glance onentering, or as viewed through theglazed door of the porch, than itwo\ild have been had the opening intothe staircase been facing the… … VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 905 because, for the reason already assigned, only the upper half of tlie paitition could be sopierced ; this screen becomes a striking feature, gives character to the Architecture,and produces a pleasing degree of scenic effect, without seeming liable to the reproachof…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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