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 202
th justice, condemns these rattletraps altogether as un-constitutional, and recommends the old system of placing two tables fittedwith flap-leaves end to end, when dinner-parties are given. Square tableshe considers preferable to round, as from them the cloth hangs in moregraceful folds, and the… … Fig. 28.—Diiiiug-room Iuterioi-. fixtures. A white table-cloth is generally too glaring in its effect, and outof keeping with the surroundings. For general purposes, one of a creamtint is preferable. • Figs. 13, 14, and 15 represent furniture designed for Mr. G. E. Ham-lins house. See Design 15.…
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