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 199
e days of ourancestors may induce some of the present members of old Puritan andKnickerbocker families to bring down from the garret long-discarded andforgotten heirlooms. At the Lady Washington tea-parties given in fash-ionable society, our belles delight to appear in the dresses and jewelsworn by… … Fig. 25.—Some Examples of Modern Upholstery. from the same age. Many of them, if placed in a modern drawing-room,would put to shame the meretricious upholstery which a perverted tastehas made fashionable. As examples of the latter, let us take the sofa andchair shown in Fig. 25, which are fair…
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