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 191
ork. To this I reply, themoment art degenerates into mere mechanism, it islowered in our estimation, as a cliromo is but slight-ly valued in comparison with the original painting.Again, under the machine system, the ornamenta-tion is apt to be excessive ; while work done byhand, at the same price,… … Fig. 19.—Stair Newel. * This sideboard was constructed for Mr. Lawrence Wa-ter-bury. Under the cove, which is covered with stamped LEGITIMATE WOOD-WORK. 187 showing how this useful piece of furniture may be constructed on legiti-mate principles. Usually, scroll-shaping, machine-carving, and glued…
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