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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (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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3io AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS September, 1912
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A sitting-room, "Meadow Court" covered with clinging ivy and many kinds of flowering vines. The ceiling of the living-room is beamed in a manner which is at once rich and extremely simple and which recalls the ceilings of certain old Franciscan refectories in Cali- fornia. Walls are wainscoted with paneling of the same dark woodwork and the space between the wainscoting and the open ceiling is covered with a fabric which with its roughness of texture offers just the background required for the pictures and other adornments with which the room is filled. Soft Oriental rugs cover the floor and about the fire- place. At one end of the living-room are grouped broad divans and deep-cushioned chairs which invite comfortable lounging. Upon a wide study table are tall metal candle- The dining-room at "Meadow Court" sticks fitted with shades of soft shirred silk which reflect the electric light upon books, magazines and writing materials. More illumination is supplied by four old altar lamps which have also been fitted for electric lighting and which are hung with befitting formality from the crossings of the heavy beams of the timbered ceiling. Upon the lower floor of "Meadow Court" are also a drawing-room, billiard-room and study, together with the dining-room and service quarters in keeping with an estate so ample and complete. The dining-room walls are cov- ered with a fabric showing a pattern in which leaves and foliage in their natural colors appear. Cretonne or taffeta of exactly the same pattern and coloring is used as hangings, (Contimced on page 336)

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  • bookid:americanhomesgar91912newy
  • 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:542
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