The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York : Putnam · leaf 168
ge, of cultivation and breeding and the sure-ness of a touch that is tempered by experience. Itis not dependent on externals: it controls externalsand uses them. A man therefore who puts up aVenetian ceiling in his library, and fills the room withRenaissance furniture, may create an atmosphere… … present in the man, in his method of employing hismedium; and interiors, though this is not alwaysremembered, are as subtle mediums of expression, insome hands, as the painters pigments themselves. In one library that I call to mind, where the archi-tect, on the other hand, has been employed to do…
Architecture, Domestic
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