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 201
, more fully illustrated in Figs. 20 and 22, accordwith the rest of the fittings, and are types of the Jacobean period. We know that the high-backed chair has been frequently condemnedon the ground that it is old-fashioned and barbarous. That it is old-fash- 196 MODERN DWELLINGS. ioned, and… … Fig. 27.—Specimens of the Reformed School. meant to be leaned upon. The design shown in Fig. 16 is a good onefor chairs of this description. It is the same as that already given in thedining-room interior. It is frequently remarked that new houses have a stiff, uncomfortablelook, and that people…
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