The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Putnam · leaf 126
tone fireplaces at either end. Op-posite the wide stone entrance, framed and hung inembossed velvets of marvellous tone, is a bay-windowover twenty feet wide, backed with growing plantsset down on the floor, a composition of perennial joy.The ceiUng is old Venetian, its panels filled with… … Salons ant) Drawing^lRoonis 57 carved frames and covered with velvet and silk, makesuperb settings for the figure. The tables are broadand beautifully carved. The ancient wedding-chestsare ample, and the pieces set out on them are objectsof beauty. Rare and beautiful things, indeed, areeverywhere,…
Architecture, Domestic
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