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 200
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… … Fig. 26.—A Chair of the New School. fend against good taste. Not only do they have the appearance of weak-ness, but they are in reality uniit to stand ordinary usage for any lengthof time. Figs. 26 and 27, specimensof the reformed school, are offeredin contrast. All flimsy, magnificent attemptsat…
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