The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Putnam · leaf 80
out referring totwo charming stairways both of which are in countryhouses. In each instance, one must turn a comerto reach them, the length of the hall being left toconvey its full purpose and impressiveness. Roundthe comer, then, of one hall rises a carved oak stair-case, its flight broken by a… … stairways 31 In the other instance, the hall itself gives you aview of outside things. At one end and at right anglesto the entrance door is a large plate-glass window:against this trees grow so close that they seem to bebrought into the house itself. Not to make thearrangement too obvious the…
Architecture, Domestic
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