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 169
ent day. The breaking up of wall sur-face with frieze and dado is one of the peculiar characteristics of the Eng-lish designs, and in this way some of the best combinations of color andpattern are produced. The dados are sometimes of a checkered chocolatepattern, relieved with gold and black; while… … tive in color, and either conventional or natural in design. In some, storks,or other fowl, in various attitudes, seem gliding through the air. In others, vines and trellis-work, ladenwith vivid green and golden fruit,relieve the frieze, as if the inter-mediate space represented a wall orscreen,…
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