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 161
yles stand oncommon ground, the laterstyle having the advan-I tage of lightness of con-struction, while the otheris pre-eminently great inthe treatment of details— carving and decora-tion. The English fur-niture partakes largely of both elements. The works of Schoolbred &Co., Collinson &… … Fig. 4.—Wall-paper. INDUSTRIAL ART EDUCATION. 157 all. Mouldings are worked on the solid. Mitred mouldings are usedsparingly, and might better have been dispensed with altogether. Theyare generally around the tops of the larger pieces, and are not the hugecornices to be seen on so many American…
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