Identifier: cu31924016493417 (find matches)
Title: Book of home building and decoration, prepared in cooperation with and under the direction of the leading manufacturers of the country
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961 Lyman, Clara Brown
Subjects: Interior decoration Furniture House furnishings
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. Doubleday, Page & Co
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A Group of Colonial Hardware, made b>- The Russell and Erwin ^Ifg. Co., New Britain, Tonn. Italian Renaissance Louis XVI
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French Gothic Louis XIVA GROI P OF PERIOD DESIGNS MADE HV SARGENT & CO., NEW YORK From 1558 to KiOS England produced ii school of design based upon Flemishand classic art, which we call Elizabethan, marked by strong and virile chaiac--teristics. Straj)work and curling cartouches with drapery festoons, the Tudorfiat pointed arcli, the guilloche and the frecjuent interlace most emphaticallyniark this style. There are three periods of English Gothic, the perpendicular being the highestplane to which it rose. The name was api^lied because of the per))endicular lineswhich persist through both tlie lower plain part of the old traceried windows andthe upper decoratecl portion. Gotliic architecture i-eached its greatest development in France, however,and the characteristics of French Gothic in decoration are the use of foliage, beast,bird and human forms, often in grotesque. Tlie German Ciotliic was largely inspired by the French. Some of the ear-lier, simpler forms are most impressive, a

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