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 931
bjection to forming a central door of a handsome character,rather larger than the others, at one end of the apartment, opening from the breakfastroom, so that the latter might, at a large dinner party, serve as an anteroom, from whichthis might be entered. In such case the first coup cTceil would… … be observed, is somewhat unusual, and rather more ambitiously decorative than a strictadherence to actual precedents in the domestic style would, perhaps, warrant. The chiefpari, however, that calls for detailed notice, is the alcove itself: this has somewhat lessdepth than could be wished, but…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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