The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Putnam · leaf 192
people, especially among those found insumptuous environments, ever seem to be so framed.They do not in reality belong to magnificent settings,even to those with which they have thought it de-sirable to surround themselves. Some are dominatedby the sense of their own splendours. Some are al-ways… … CORNER IN BEDROOM OK LOfIS XV., AT VERSAILLES The woodwork is carved and gilded It is only now and then that one finds men and womenlike the mistress of this bedroom, to whom housesare like words—arbitrary symbols for conveying newmeanings in old things, new aspects of time-worntruths, new graces…
Architecture, Domestic
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