Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 127
lly met by the adoption ofblinds that are so arranged as todraw up; the Venetian, or rolling,blinds are also popular. The fault ofthese is, the first offer no protection from intrusion from without, and thelatter are too expensive. There is an objection to each, however. Whenthe upper sash is of… … Interior of Bay-window. BLINDS. 123 this difficulty, I have devised an arrangement by which the inside blindsmay be made to slide downward in two sections, occupying the space be-tween the sill and the floor, and, when raised, cover only the plate-glassportion. The centre openings in the vignette…
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