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Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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antel was brought from Italy. It supports a imeold gilded mirror with blue ornaments. There are curtainsof red-darnask silk at the doors ami windows, and some linepieces of tapestry arc hung on the walls and between the openspaces to the hall. The Oriental rugs are red. The September, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 151 furniture is some-\v hat varied inorigin, some of itbeing antique andsome brought fromRome. The pre-vailing colors arered and gold. Someold Roman sofasare of blue and goldwith red-damaskcoverings. Glazed doorslead to the adjoiningapartment, which isknown as the Mar-ble Room. Onepauses on its thresh-old with astonish-ment and delight.Few rooms any-where, and certainlyfew rooms in such aquiet New Englandhome as this is, offersuch a surprising contrast to the exterior of the house. This point, however,is quite immaterial beside the exquisite beauty of the room.On the floor is a vast mosaic, brought from the Torloniapalace, of yellow and white and red and black marble. The
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The Morning Room, or Mrs. Meyers Den great central circlesurrounds a star-likecenter, and containslallions with in-scribed emblems ofthe elements. Ateach end are oblongmedallions w i t hcherubs and otherligures. It is hardly nec-essary to add thatthis splendid marbleHoor gives the nameto this sumptuousroom. It is a roomof marvelous andbeautiful light. Atone end is the greatbay-window of themain front; at theother is a triple win-dow that admits thenorth light; each isseparated from thecentral part of theroom by columns that form a kind of recess before them.The walls are white; a paneled wainscot below, and largerpanels formed by gilded moldings above. The detail of thecapitals of the columns are picked out with gold, and a mold-

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