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Principles of decorative design (1873)

Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 101

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,are issuing a completeseries of my decorationsfor walls, dados, andceilings. If the dado is en-riched with ornament, andthe cornice is coloured,and a pattern spreads allover the ceiling, the wallscan well lie plain, butthey may be covered witha simple powdering asthe patterns in Fig. 01,if these… … Fig. 61. be produced by pattern Fie:. behn th ceiling in dark blue and cream-colour, by the cornice being coloured with a pro-valence <if dark blue, the walls being cream-colour down to the dado; the borderseparating the dado from the wall being black ornament on a dull orange-colour;and by the…

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