The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Putnam · leaf 40
entabout doing so. With all our wealth we have not yetattained to the surety and magnificence of certainEuropean methods, where money is not so new, andways of doing things have been long enough establishedto arouse no temerity. In some foreign houses, forinstance, besides the conventional suite of… … Entrances anJ) Iballs n When, in certain of our town houses, ascent is madeto the upper hall leading to the drawing-rooms, aregion of beauty and sumptuousness is discoveredwhich goes to prove how surely both the knowledge andtaste of certain of the elect among us have progressed.The flight of steps…
Architecture, Domestic
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