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Arrowsmith, Henry William / The house decorator and painter's guide; containing a series of designs for decorating apartments, suited to the various styles of architecture
(1840)

Plate XXVII ["Louis Quinze style"]-Plate XXVIII ["style of Francois Premier"],   pp. 56-Plate XXVIII ff.


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                                Plate XXVII.
  In this plate we have given a design for a ceiling well adapted for a room
decorated in the Louis Quinze style, such as that represented in Plate XVII.
This will be found an elegant decoration to a drawing-room of small dimen-
sions.  In colour it must have a correspondence with the walls, and would
have a chaste and beautiful appearance if picked out in tints and gold.
                                Plate XXVIII.
Is a design for a room in the style of Francois Premier, a mode of decora-
tion  which  is in the present day     exceedingly fashionable.   The elegant
ornaments of this style are manufactured in Paris, and a great variety of
patterns may be obtained.    They are commonly finished in blue and 'silver,
shaded with morone; and nothing can surpass the elegant and even sump-
tuous appearance of these decorations, from the union of a rich colouring
and
a chaste relief.


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