How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 250
le des Beaux Arts, or College ofArchitects, and from mysteries became public propertyof recognized authority. The use of the styles of Louis XIV., XV., and XVI., orOuatorze Qutnze and Seize to give them their fa-miliar French appellations, for furniture and decorations inthis country has made them… … FIG. 93—INTERIOR OF A DRAWING-ROOM (LOUIS XVI.) HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE traced to a parentage within these three reigns in France.Their differentiation is rather an intricate matter, sointermingled have their interpretations become under theirreverent hand of the manufacturers. Even the…
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