American homes and gardens (1913) (14785140225)

Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (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: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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The owners bed-chamber. The old desk was brought from the Hague August, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 287
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Mr. Otis of ancient Dutch The living-room, showing entrance to the dining-room on esting House is the Japanese tearoom. The walls of this some four posterroom were left rough, with hemlock studding,himself covered thespaces between thestudding with bur-lap, and then,over the burlap hestretched antiqueJapanese grass cloth,beautifully decoratedby hand with the ex-quisite forms andcolors which only theJapanese artistsseem to fully under-stand. There are twoother treasures i nthis room. A won-derful window pur-chased in Antwerp,from a house said tohave been the homeof the great artistPeter Paul Rubens,and a piece of Chi-nese embroiderythree feet by six,which was takenfrom a Chinesetemple, and whichglows with wonder-ful rich old colors inelaborate designs. Of the down stairsbedrooms, theowners room is thefinest, with its hand- The Rubens window in the tearoom the right bed and a marquetry,