The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Putnam · leaf 248
all tended to stimulate our interest in the decora-tive value of lights rightly placed and distributed, aswell as in the perfection of those forms through whichthese lights are conveyed. With the discovery of gas as an illuminant, on theother hand, we had thrown over every aesthetic sense.Blares of…
Architecture, Domestic
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