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 456
few houses in this country were in-fluenced by the ideas, so prevalent in England, of WilliamMorris, while the native American designer, whose style,whatever we think of its merits, is most markedly original,has found no imitators. Foreigners can not understand whythe New World does not take kindly… … THE MODERN RESIDENCE new country, also, good art is much more necessary thannew art. Americans do not feel safe in such surround-ings; they have no guarantee that it is the real thing, andconsequently they are at present much more conservative inmatters of interior decoration than are Europeans.…
Architecture, Domestic
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