The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Putnam · leaf 134
door. Some splendid effects are produced in these daysby the use in salons of marble or wooden coltimnsintroduced about the doorways. One sees them inmany of the important salons giving distinction toentrances. Even when they make no architecturalpretence of supporting a framework, they are,… … Salons ant) 2)rawina*1Rooms 6i satins and silks of tiie richest description, are em-ployed as hangings, superb old stuffs, to supplywhich some church or palace has been denuded.Marbles appear in the construction, some that werecarved centuries ago, and woods that have taken asmany years to tone;…
Architecture, Domestic
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