Our doors and windows - how to decorate them (1889) (14596001047)

Identifier: ourdoorswindowsh00cutt (find matches)
Title: Our doors and windows : how to decorate them
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Cutting and DeLaney (Firm)
Subjects: Windows in interior decoration Latticework Doors Interior decoration
Publisher: Buffalo : Cutting and DeLaney
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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and the purely utilitarianreasons which prescribed her external lines have resulted in an imposing perspectiveof singularly graceful curvature. There would have been some monotony, how-ever, had the whole length been left unbroken ; so the artist skillfully divided itby the projecting screens shown in our picture, which cut the walls into threecompartments without at all interfering with convenience or the freedom of theeye. The central compartment is much shorter than the others, and its decora-tion is emphasized by a large mirror against the inner wall and a more elaboratewindow than those on either side. All the windows are grouped in threes—a vastimprovement upon the old uniform rows. The walls in the womens cabin arewainscoted with oak and then painted a neutral grayish green with a band ofsimple Renaissance decoration in white and a little gold. Stfti&v.1.* V A WA :v^$^»A^;%^»iS&%:S»S^s»«2£iS:£;(!£««>%tf ;M« * > Z >■Vtfr.L&J&MSilSitoKi mm
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Special Designs for Arches. TWO BEAUTIFUL ROOMS. rY\ RS. William B. Astors reception-room is a snug, small, sumptuous apart-1*1 ment that looks out on Fifth Avenue through a single window cased inebony wood and smothered in hangings of turquoise blue silk and indigo tintedlace. The walls are hung in turquoise silk, with a decorative dado and acanvas-painted ceiling, and the ebony finish of the wood-work is as beautifullypolished as a piece of onyx. In the center of the parquetry floor is an odd designof small Persian rugs, inlaid as it were in a field of garnet terry. Precious rugsdrape the small divans, and superb specimens of needle painting are shown inthe chair coverings. The most attractive article of furniture is a small uprightpiano of light mahogany, beautifully embellished with panels of carved silver,symbolic of music and song. Figures of Cupids and busts of children fill thecorners of the room with beauty, and as the visitor enters she passes under theglossy, green branches