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 184
Wherever on the wralls there is a gold groundwork, the treat-ment is the same or similar—there are but the two patterns; yet so inge-niously are they varied, that at first sight you would say the patterns werea dozen or more. They are diversified in size, and the actual touch of thebrush is never… … Fig. 13.—Library Table. simple than if the artist had permitted himself to introduce other forms.The eye reappears all along the lower edge of the cove beneath the throatfeathers, with which the cove itself is overlaid. On the dado, or that partof the wall which rises for some three feet…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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