French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 50
A Dutch Tulip Garden would be guilty of anunpardonable crime were she to hang it over paperalready covered with tulips, good as that tulip papermight be ; or to hang a Venetian sketch with itsdelicacy and transparency of tone — or a picture ofBermuda with pale colored skies and whitewashedhouses —… … f _i i r~ In any room intended for reading and study,walls covered with blossoms, or intricate, over-ac-centuated designs, are dis- ^^tracting and unsatisfactory.Books are in themselves adecoration. The colors oftheir bindings,—-reds, greens,blues, and gold,— broken bythe tawny hue of old calf,have…
Interior decoration
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