Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Decorative Elements in Architecture: Random Observations on the Eternal Fitness of Things From a Decorative Point of View
We have made tremendous progress in art since the day of the brown-stone stoop dwelling, built by the mile, and the Eastlake sideboard, built by the gross, but our petticoat is still occasionally too green.
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