Gothic architecture applied to modern residences; containing designs of all the important parts of a private dwelling, exhibited in elaborate perspective drawings, together with large and copious details (1849)
Arnot, D. H. (David Henry) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 52
The bed is of the simplest form, low and broad, the head slightly predommatesover the foot; the foliage falls in massive sweeps, with the expression of havinggrown to its present form. The broad, deep indentations are the very spirit ofcarving; and as one fold overlaps another, the leaf might be… … The dressing glass is an oblong; the frame a plain, hollow monlding, fallingon a beveled sill, interrupted only by the taper brackets until it arches over andexpands into intertwining foliage at the head. The outline is marked by threeboldly relieved crockets. 40 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE CHAPTER IX. It…
Architecture, Gothic · Architecture, Domestic
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