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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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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The Drawing-Room is Walled in Two Shades of Gray. The Beautiful White Marble Mantel Was Brought from Italy 152 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS September, 1906 ing of the same pure color is at the base of the cornice. Thewhite-marble mantel was brought from the same palace. Itis decorated with a frieze of standing figures dancing, ex-quisitely carved in bas-relief. Above it is a mirror in a richlycarved and gilded frame, and on each side is a credence-table,also carved and gilded, with a top of white marble. Thefurniture, which, like most of the contents of the room, camefrom Rome, is pea-green and gold. Opposite the mantel isa gold and white credence-table, with an old mirror above itand large brass side-light standards. There are no curtainsat the windows, the brilliant, warm sun streaming in fromthe south, lighting up every part of the great room, whichone leaves with reluctance, so unusual are its contents, sobrilliant its walls, so splendid its floor. It is a room whosebeauty will long

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