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 96
LE DOORS. 83 wood. The sofRt of a wooden flight of stairs should,therefore, either be formed of wood panelling, or ofplaster, papered or paintedin imitation of it: but,under any circumstances,forget not the rakingmoulding. Even whenthe stairs are of stone,with under-cut mould-ings, we would still… … Hints on Comfort and Convenience. Double doors.—In allusion to a few matters of com-fort and conveniencef we would hint at the virtue ofbeing a match for the occasional violence of gustyweather, in so contriving that two doors shall be passedbefore you are fairly in the body of the house. Thusan…
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