The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York : Putnam · leaf 100
tone to be felt rather than seen, the backsbeing capped by small gilded ornaments. The cur-tains are of blue, showing the same charming sub-ordination of tone. Thus the room has everywherebeen made to preserve a certain ensemble, being tiedtogether by colour as it were, a colour so reposefuland… … which individual elements of beauty gradually unfoldthemselves. And this, it would seem, is the finalrequirement of all interiors. They are first enveloping.You may get their atmosphere at once, be playedupon by their colour, and feel their charm, but theperception of even their unrivalled details…
Architecture, Domestic
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