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Durand, Jean Nicolas Louis.

Recueil et Parallèle des Édifices de tout Genre. Paris, 1800.

Précis des Leçons d'Architecture données à l'École Royale Polytechnique. Paris, 1823.

Quatremère de Quincy, A. C.

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ENGLISH

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The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide.

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General Plan and External Details, with Picturesque Illustrations, of Thorpe Hall, Peterborough.

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History of the Modern Styles of Architecture. Third edition, revised by Robert Kerr. London, 1891.

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INTRODUCTION

Rooms may be decorated in two ways: by a superficial application of ornament totally independent of structure, or by means of those architectural features which are part of the organism of every house, inside as well as out.

In the middle ages, when warfare and brigandage shaped the conditions of life, and men camped in their castles much as they did in their tents, it was natural that decorations should be portable, and that the naked walls of the mediæval chamber should be hung with arras, while a ciel, or ceiling, of cloth stretched across the open timbers of its roof.

When life became more secure, and when the Italian conquests of the Valois had acquainted men north of the Alps with the spirit of classic tradition, proportion and the relation of voids to masses gradually came to be regarded as the chief decorative values of the interior. Portable hangings were in consequence replaced by architectural ornament: in other words, the architecture of the room became its decoration.

This architectural treatment held its own through every change of taste until the second quarter of the