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 72
curtain or the chef cCoauvre ofornamental paper might be dispensed with. Many think that stained glass gives a house too much the appearanceof a church. This was formerly, and with good reason, said of furnitureand interiors treated in the Gothic style. This perhaps suggests one rea-son why the… … Design No. 9. 68 MODERN DWELLINGS. dim religious treatment, the colors are usually light and transparent, andthe leading, instead of being diamond-shaped, is square. The materialused is that known as roll cathedral, which, from the unevenness of itssurface, has a brilliant and sparkling effect. We…
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