Dresser, Christopher · London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 93
the ceiling look as well as it would do without it. Now place all over the ceiling a flat painted or stencilled pattern, a pattern which repeats equally in all directions (as Fig. 51), and let this pattern be in blue (of any depth) and white, or in blue (of any depth) and cream-colour, and it is… … only. Fig. I like to see the ceiling of a room covered all over with a suitable pattern, but I do not at all object to a large central ornament only, or to a centre ornament and corners ; especially if the cornice is heavy, so as to give compensating weight to the margin. I have recently designed…
Decoration and ornament
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