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 158
itu-tion are incalculable. They would extend toevery class—from the wealthy, who might visitthere for pleasure, to the adult mechanic, whowould have the advantage of evening-school, withthe best of instruction. Here the painter wouldbe instructed in the harmonious blending of col-ors and the… … Fig. 3.—Wall-paper. 154 MODERN DWELLINGS. chisel out an ordinary Corinthian capital, with its eternal acanthus, butwho would utterly fail to conceive or execute the spirited and ever-vary-ing forms of Gothic scroll or leaf-work, would have eye and hand taughtto appreciate and work out these…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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