The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Putnam · leaf 172
bya book! To have ventured to pick up a volume wouldhave meant to bring the whole arrangement downabout ones feet. But what a flashlight it threw onthe intellectual propensities of the family. And howit gave the lie to the boast of the shelves. Table covers, falUng to the ground, have no placein… … Xibrarics 87 embodies a temptation too great to be resisted, amongthose who perhaps have picked up a piece of oldbrocade or damask, and feel the need of it now to softenwhat is sometimes called a line. The lines of a beau-tiful table ought never to be concealed. They repre-sent the work of…
Architecture, Domestic
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