French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 315
? *bi3iL j i a/t- * —- and apologies. Mirrors like these do well enough in hotels and railway sta-tions, where the laughable mistakes they entail maybe found amusing by the impolite observer ; butthey are vulgar in houses. Anything is vulgar ina house which constantly makes another ill at easeand… … HOMES AND THEIR DECORATION an opening in the wall. It must hang on a levelwith the eye, be furnished with a shelf underneath,the shelf to be set with flowers and candlesticks.The idea is merely to make the end of the visualline agreeable by providing a pleasant composition.A picture over the shelf…
Interior decoration
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