The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Putnam · leaf 148
te is sounded. There is one, for ex-ample, in which the sympathy of the owner inclinesher to Gothic forms. Thus, her bookcases and windoware copies of famous Gothic carvings, painted white.With these, as colours, she combines, however, onlythe softest sea-shell pinks. They appear in the… … Boudoirs, Dens, anb Smohino^lRooins 71 Like those who attire themselves for church, the mis-tress of this room never enters it unless she is clothedin garments of diaphanous white. But why should you laugh? Even so grave a necessity, imposed upon herself,is not altogether folly. For certainly there…
Architecture, Domestic
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