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 214
t forinferior purposes. At fashionableparties in our cities it is often super-seded by wax-candles. Bevelled mirrors, with metalframes, were also quite common atone period; but instead of reachingfrom floor to ceiling, as if intended to delude the visitor into the belief that the reflection of the… … 41.—Bolt.. 210 MODERN DWELLINGS. CHAPTER XVI. HOME ART. Gentlemen as Amateur Cabinet-makers.—Ladies as Wall Decorators.—Imitation StainedGlass.—Home-made Curtains.—Rods and Brackets.—Fret or Bracket Saws.—BurlapsHearth-rug.—Impromptu Sconces.—Grouping of Flags.—Renewing Picture-frames. THE…
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