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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar51908newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS B3^ The Dining- ichool. of the Spanish school. A vestibule opposite the entrance door leads to a pergola that connects the house with the casino. This is a two-story structure containing a bowling alley below and a squash court above. The drawing-room is designed in a robust type of Louis tapestry XIV. The wainscot, woodwork and cornice are of wood, lining ii gilded in gold leaf; the walls are covered with rose-colored corded silk and the hangings are of rose damask. The ceil- ing is painted with clouds in color, light in tone. The furni- ture is Louis XV, and is gilded with coverings of Beauvais The fireplace facings are black and gold, the heavily modeled iron, and the fire-screen and The Library Is Finished in Oak with a Beamed Ceiling andirons are gilded. The hardwood floor is almost com- The magnificent great hall is the largest room in the house pletely covered with an immense and very beautiful Oriental and is, perhaps, twenty-five feet wide and sixty feet long, rug. The cornice contains a concealed lighting system for It is lighted by three great windows overlooking the principal the illumination of the superb collection of paintings with terrace, and is two stories in height, with an overhanging which the walls are crowded, and which cover practically all balcony, supported on carved brackets, entirely around it. the available space. The walls arc paneled to the balcony in American quartered
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v.5(1908)
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  • bookid:americanhomesgar51908newy
  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture_Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York_Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:719
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