The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York : Putnam · leaf 116
of visitors was preachedagainst and ridiculed, the real compliment to the guestbeing then declared to be a welcome to the more in-timate side of family life, where father had just beenreading, perhaps, or mother sewing. The disciplesof that creed used to make it a rule to leave in… … Salons ant) Brawing^lRoome 53 object to the idea of designating any room as a salon,who will have music rooms, libraries, west rooms,and east rooms, but who refuse to designate any oneof them as places where conversation with the visitorcan be carried on. They think such places too formal,not…
Architecture, Domestic
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