Stately homes in America : from colonial times to the present day (1903)
Desmond, Harry W. (Harry William), 1863-1913, Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 236
moved to attempt a reform of theequally vulgar household trappings of early Victorian Eng-land, wanted to substitute some individuality for the dullprevailing conventions, and infuse simplicity and sincerityinto the prevailing forms. He obtained for a while a veryconsiderable following both in… … THE GREATER MODERN RESIDENCE New York interiors became Eastlakian in design; and underthe influence of his ideas decorative art societies were estab-lished in many of the Western as well as of the Eastern cities. His reform, however, must be judged rather by its inten-tion than its result. As we…
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