The house dignified; its design, its arrangement and its decoration (1908)
French, Lillie Hamilton, 1854-1939 · New York, Putnam · leaf 88
tness of the surrounding walls. But, whether darkor light, this frame must first accentuate the feelingof the present and the evanescent hour. The most important dining-rooms of to-day arehung with tapestries, or panelled in woods, the Hnesbeing broken up by the introduction of coliamns, some-times… … Dinino^lRooms 35 been considered the surfaces are left plain. Oak,chestnut, walnut, mahogany, and satin wood are amongthose oftenest seen. When oak has been treated with a dull grey stainhaving in it the merest suggestion of green, like thatwhich one finds on oak benches scattered throughFrench…
Architecture, Domestic
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