Old English furniture and its surroundings, from the restoration to the regency (1920)
Percival, MacIver · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 89
h century the style offireplace affected by Gibbs was fashionable; in most of hissimpler designs the fireplaces themselves were very plain,just a squarish opening surrounded by slips of very slightmoulding. He made constant use of the kneed architrave.His over-mantels were rather heavy, resembling… … v^ small ornaments. Where chinawas intended to be part of thedecoration there was specialprovision made for its recep-tion, and some of Marots de-signs show very happy arrange-ments to this end. At the early part of the periodgrates were an exception, but17. Fireplace, 1706, about 1700 they became…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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