Period furnishings; an encyclopedia of historic furniture, decorations and furnishings (1911)
Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935 · New York, Clifford & Lawton · leaf 237
ameiitaldetails; sec-ond, coveredby wainscote; and third, Colonial, where hung with silks, tapestries or paper. As early as 1745,Charles Hargraves was advertising wall-paper inPhiladelphia, and a very few years later Peter Fleesonwas making paper-hangings, although paper made inthe roll did not… … ing Elizabethan influence, the principal characteristicsbeing wainscoting, flat carving, turning, straight legsand heavy underbracing, rails and stiles mortised, andthe tenons pinned with wooden pegs. Other periodsare also well represented, including twelve piecesgrouped under the first decade of…
Interior decoration · Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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