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 131
the Piano.—Gas- SOME of the defects we notice in modern apartments arise from thefact that they have been built upon a half-digested plan, in whichonly a portion of the necessary requirements have been considered. Anarchitect, in designing a room, should, as it were, live in it in imagina-tion… … Design No. 21. quire that every piece of furniture should be included within the plan.How often we see the hot-air registers come directly in the spaces pro-vided for piano, bookcase, or bedstead. Often doors cannot be openedwithout interfering with passages, or encountering some obstruction.Then,…
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