Coleman, Oliver · New York, Fox Duffield & Company · leaf 50
permits, for it seems doubtful if abarren and chilling call is possible in the mellow and softening influenceof a blazing fire. And this is always to be the most important consideration in a drawingroom: to design and furnish so as in the greatest measure to put a strangerat his ease; to create… … CHAPTER III THE DINING ROOM The dictates of custom and the exigencies of modern civilization decreethat in each day we shall three times cross the threshold of the diningroom. There, meeting with the others of our most intimate world, webecome profoundly open to the influences of our surroundings…
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