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 963
n of our old builders, and contributed to the completeness ofcomposition. Hence, in their more finished structures, tlie decoration even of floorswas not neglected; the practice being to intermix, with stone paving, ornamental glazedtiles, of varied colour and device. For these the achievements of… … VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 941 purposes, mere alternate patterns of different colours. The best of these tiles wereexecuted by indenting the required ornament in the substance of the clay while moist,and filling up the vacuities with clay of a different colour, after which they were subjectedto the…
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