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 219
er ofingenious contrivances, I saw a pair of sconces made by himself. He hadcome across a plate-glass establishment, where they had a thrifty way ofutilizing the broken pieces which usually go to waste, by squaring andbevelling their edges, and putting them into simple wooden frames asmirrors. He… … Fig. 46.—Bedroom Furniture. * This scroll -sawing, although mechanical in itself, has proved the germ of somehappy artistic efforts. The work of the carving-tool is often displayed upon the surfaceof the wood; as, for instance, in the case of vine-work, where the veins may be in reliefor intaglio,…
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