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Principles of decorative design (1873)

Dresser, Christopher · London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 100

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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN'. whether "stippled" or plain, and is Ijoth duraljle and washable. An entire wall . should never be varnished. I say that a wall can look well even i£ not decorated. Let me give one or two Fig. 57. instances ; but, perhaps, I had better g-ive treatments for the entire room,… … Fig. .09. colour called middle-chrome and white, and to resemble in depth the best pure cream), a cornice coloured with pale blue of greyish tint, with deep blue, white, and a slight line of red, and a ceiling of blue of almost any depth. The ceiling colour to be pure French ultramarine, or this…

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