House & garden's book of interiors, containing over three hundred illustrations of living rooms, dining rooms, libraries, halls, bedrooms, porches, breakfast rooms, nurseries, kitchens, bathrooms and the use of decorative accessories and curtains, together with practical suggestions for the furnishing and decorating of each type of room in the house (1920)
Wright, Richardson Little, 1887-1961 · New York : C. Nast & company · leaf 44
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Interior decoration
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