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The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)

French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Putnam · leaf 122

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,belonging to the time and unencumbered with thesuperfluous, a few pieces of Sevres and other rareporcelains alone being allowed upon them. On themantles are the clocks and candelabra of the period;in the fireplaces, the chencts belonging to the sameepoch. The chairs and sofas are of tapestry,… … Salons an^ 2)ravvinc}*1Room5 55 appointments that its feeling of graciousness is to befound—its grouping of chairs, its arrangement oftables always set out with rare flowers, its choice anddistribution of hghts—a point too often neglected.Everything helps the picture, as it were. Peopleappear, and…

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