French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 327
st therefore be to keepto low tones, to plain surfaces or unobtrusive fig-ures harmonizing with the walls. An up and downstaircase has no architectural values to be respected,no curving lines of beauty, no proportions meant 259 HOMES AND THEIR DECORATION to satisfy the eye. Unlike a grand… … palms are put on wide marble steps, after the fashionprevailing in palaces. One sees, in many of the houses of to-day, andalways in those of artists, a fashion which has longprevailed in museums — that of lining the wall atthe side of the stairs with pictures. Not with onesVan Dycks, nor ones…
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