Furnishing the Home of Good Taste: A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of TodayThroop, Lucy Abbot
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Furnishing the Home of Good Taste: A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
Throop, Lucy Abbot
Interior decoration
Four post bed 145
Doorway detail, Compiègne 152
Reproduction of a bed owned by Marie Antoinette 153
Reproduction of Louis XVI bed 153
A Georgian hallway 162
Rare block-front chest of drawers 163
A modern living-room 178
Curtain treatment for a summer home 179
Hallway showing rugs 188
Hallway showing rugs 189
Colonial bed-room 189
Dining-room with paneled walls 196
Four post bed owned by Lafayette 197
Modern dining-room 204
Four post bed 205
Reproductions of Adam painted furniture 222
Three-chair Sheraton settee 223
Reproduction of a Sheraton wing-chair 223
Slat-backed chair 223
Group of chairs and pie-crust table 232
Groups of chairs 233
Reproduction of Jacobean buffet 236
Group of mirrors 237
Reproduction of William and Mary settee 240
Adaptation of Georgian ideas to William and Mary dressing table 240
Two Adam chairs 241
Jacobean day-bed 241
Reproductions of Chippendale table and Hepplewhite desk 244
Reproduction of Sheraton chest of drawers 245
Reproduction of William and Mary chest of drawers 245
A modern sun-room 246
Sheraton sofa 247
Hepplewhite chair and nest of tables 247
Chippendale wing-chair 247
Modern paneled living-room 248
Empire bed 248
Hancock desk, and fine old highboy 249
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