 ... domestic architecture forms a faultless setting. It is absolutely frank and straightforward in construction, perfectly simple in its forms, and reserved and refined in its decorations; all the ornament is rigidly constructional, while the furnishings...  House Beautiful - Pàgina 2881899Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1902 - 426 pàgines
...profoundly grateful to the Western recipient. For the courtesy and simplicity of Japanese home-life the domestic architecture forms a faultless setting....accessories. The spirit of ornamented construction and no other ornament whatever that characterized Greek architecture finds its echo in Asia. As a result... | |
 | Ralph Adams Cram - 1905 - 348 pàgines
...rigidly constructional, while the furnishings are of the simplest quality and only such as the nature of the life demands. There is no ornament for the...accessories. The spirit of ornamented construction and no other ornament whatever that characterized Greek architecture finds its echo in Asia. As a result... | |
 | Ralph Adams Cram - 1905 - 346 pàgines
...rigidly constructional, while the furnishings are of the simplest quality and only such as the nature of the life demands. [There is no ornament for the...striving for picturesque effect through fantastic irregu[135] larity, no overloading of unnecessary decoration, no confusion of furnishings, no litter... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - 1919 - 888 pàgines
...rigidly constructional, while the furnishings are of the simplest quality and only such as the nature of the life demands. There is no ornament for the...accessories. The spirit of ornamented construction and no other ornament whatever that characterized Greek architecture finds its echo in Asia. As a result... | |
 | Gustav Stickley - 1915 - 656 pàgines
...rigidly constructional, while the furnishings are of the simplest quality and only such as the nature of the life demands. There is no ornament for the...accessories. The spirit of ornamented construction and no other ornament whatever that characterized Greek architecture finds its echo in Asia. As a result... | |
 | 1906 - 882 pàgines
...rigidly constructional, while the furnishings are of the simplest quality and only such as the nature of the life demands. There is no ornament for the...trivial and embarrassing accessories. The spirit of ornamental construction and no other ornament whatever that characterized Greek architecture finds... | |
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