All the furniture is in simple and noble taste.There are no tapestries, and a few paintingsor mirrors form the principal ornaments. Theartistic Frenchman alone of the many writers 294 MEN AND HOUSES on Table Bay mentions the really beautifulColonial furniture. The genius of Holland isalways that of… … OLD COLONIAL-MADE CHAIR. work of the two countries is extraordinarily alike.I think all the fine ehenistes of France in thetime of Louis XIV were of Dutch or Flemishorigin, and though they wrought after the Frenchstyle, there is often, especially amongst the earlierwork, a distinctly ungallic…
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