The apartments of the house : their arrangement, furnishing and decoration (1900)
Crouch, Joseph, Butler, Edmund · London : At the sign of the Unicorn · leaf 49
g. Without being exactly afterthoughts, they should be the fruit of acquaintance, and even of intimacy, with the stones and timber composing the dwelling. There is something depressing in taking up one’s abode in a house so minutely finished that nothing is left for brush or tool to do. A house,… … Fig. 18. adequate and expressive. With the passing of the years the stones and beams become precious to us as silent witnesses: of our most sacred joys and sorrows, and surely their decoration should not be the jarring exotic which the professional decorator will give us, in common with a thousand…
Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration
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