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
et the public taste is far from be-ing cultivated in these matters; andpaper, instead of forming a back-ground to sculpture, pictures, and ar-ticles of virtu, is apt to assert itselffar beyond its due importance. A wall surface cannot be beauti-ful unless the forms upon it be of Fi&… … PAPER-HANGING. 165 tints, rendered offensive, rather than pleasing, by the decorations theybear. It is not our province here to give special rules for the designing ofwall-paper, yet one or two suggestions on this subject may not be inap-propriate. A favorite treatment of wall-surface, either in…
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