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American houses antechamber apartments arabesques architects architectural architrave artistic ball-room beauty bedroom bookcases boudoir bronze built carpet carved ceiling chairs chintz color comfort composition contain cornice curtains dado deco detail dining-room door doorway drawing-room DUCAL PALACE EASTON NESTON effect eighteenth century England English entablature examples fact fireplace floor France furniture gala rooms gilding hall house-decoration house-planning hung Inigo Jones interior Italian Italian palaces Italy knick-knacks less lines Louis XIV LOUIS XV PERIOD mantel mantel-pieces MANTUA marble marquetry mediæval ment modern mouldings objects of art old French ormolu ornament over-door over-mantel painted PALACE OF FONTAINEBLEAU PALACE OF VERSAILLES panelling Paris plain plaster Plate produced proportion regarded Renaissance saloon scheme of decoration school-room seen seldom sense staircase stairs stone stucco suited tapestry taste tion ugly usually vaulted Vaux-le-Vicomte VERSAILLES VERTEMATI vestibule wall-decoration wall-paper wall-space walls well-designed wood wooden XVI CENTURY