Practical house decoration : a guide to the art of ornamental painting, the arrangement of colours in apartments and the principles of decorative design : with some remarks upon the nature and properties of pigments (1886)
Facey, James William · London : Crosby Lockwood · leaf 68
52 PRACTICAL HOUSE DECORATION. dado arrangement is a peculiar characteristic of the houses of the Jacobean period, and where the whole of the fittings and furniture are correspondingly quaint in construction, … Fig. 7. — High (Panelled) Dado. its effect is both novel and pleasing to nineteenth-century connoisseurs. But when so great a width is required, it is obvious that if finished in monochrome its effect would be rather to offend the eye ; it is, in consequence, essential
Interior decoration · Color in interior decoration · Mural painting and decoration
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