Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 217
f again toadd a grace to life.We are too muchaccustomed to seeing French furniture in thedetached environment of a gallery such as thatof the Jones bequest, or in huge palace roomswhere no human being ever lives in comfort.Hence has arisen the superstition that Frenchfurniture is cold and pompous… … CABINET IN IVORY AND PIETRA DURA. were to see the wonderful bureau which is thepride of Buckingham Palace in its boudoir, suchas that for which it was originally made, withthe warm lights of a fire (Fortune grant it benot placed too close!) playing upon its polishedinlay and the sparkling facets of…
