The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York : Putnam · leaf 72
lustre, or chande-lier, holding places for eight candles. Balloon-shaped,with delightfully balanced projectors, this lustre ismade of beautifully wrought iron and steel, theshining surfaces of the steel being repeated in the rock-crystal pendants of elongated egg shape. To the gen-eral effect,… … Stairwai^0 27 A still more beautiful stairway is found in a cityhouse of ordinary dimensions—that is, with a twenty-four-foot front. This is in the hall of Caen stone, towhich reference has also been made in the precedingchapter as having its wall surfaces broken by archesinto which mirrors have…
Architecture, Domestic
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