Album de cheminées
An album of fireplace mantel designs, published in Turin around 1910, presumably for architects, builders and craftsmen working on interiors. The four plates are numbered mantel elevations in brown wash with green marbled panels, showing carved pilasters, moulded friezes and flat or arched openings drawn without decoration around the fireplace. A designer could take from them the proportion of pilasters to frieze, the placement of inlaid marble panels, and the scrolled or rosette ornament used sparingly on classical surrounds.
