The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Putnam · leaf 76
ings for them must depend,of course, upon the nearness of the neighbours eyes.Although this arrangement of the stairs brings the firstturn of the steps facing the front door, you are notmade to feel their obtrusiveness. That uncomfortableimpression is spared you by two things—the breakingof the… … stairways 29 in case your breath is lost. A table sometimes holdsflowers or plants, a pedestal supports a Greek urn, butthe unimportant and the trivial are not permitted. The insistence upon this point may seem unneces-sary, and would be did not one find it everjnvhereviolated. The temptation to…
Architecture, Domestic
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