Hints to young architects, comprising advice to those who, while yet at school, are destined to the profession, to such as, having passed their pupilage, are about to travel and to those who, having completed their education, are about to practise, together with a model specification involving a great variety of instructive and suggestive matter (1887)
Wightwick, George · London, Lockwood · leaf 88
g only plinth high. Ocular Impressions.—Consider, secondly, that themode of finishing rooms,—with a heavy, or light,cornice,—a dado, or only a simple skirting,—a plainor a richly decorated ceiling,—materially affects theirapparent size ; the space taken from the plain part ofthe walls and ceiling… … Fig. 1. their sizes are observed to be tbe same; but, looked at in separate succession, fig. 1 A will be called long and low, fig. 2 spacious and high.* Having, there-fore, satisfiedyour employer inreal dimension,— a questiontouching only hiscarpet - room,table, and chairs,—you may dis-appoint him…
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