International studio . STAIRCASE AND WALL DECORATION OF HALL COLONIAL RESIDENCE OF MR. TAYLOR, AT WATERTOWN, N. Y. \V. IRANCKLYN PARISARCHITECT dale, with white enameled walls and ceiling, thefurnishing and bookcases of mahogany, the wallpanels accommodating themselves to the book-cases, as will be seen in the illustration. The bil-liard room is French Empire—lygo to 1815—thedining room and hall are English Colonial, whilethe owners room is Holland Colonial. This room has an immense fireplace, the fire opening being,perhaps, five feet square, and above there is asuperb carving of oak. The ceil
International studio . STAIRCASE AND WALL DECORATION OF HALL COLONIAL RESIDENCE OF MR. TAYLOR, AT WATERTOWN, N. Y. \V. IRANCKLYN PARISARCHITECT dale, with white enameled walls and ceiling, thefurnishing and bookcases of mahogany, the wallpanels accommodating themselves to the book-cases, as will be seen in the illustration. The bil-liard room is French Empire—lygo to 1815—thedining room and hall are English Colonial, whilethe owners room is Holland Colonial. This room has an immense fireplace, the fire opening being,perhaps, five feet square, and above there is asuperb carving of oak. The ceiling is oak , however, there are harmony of styleand absence of frills and furbelows. The mostrigid classicism prevails from wall covering of theUving room, which is an actual reproduction of a TJic Sterling Mansion. Di icu hjlomal mantel in the master s room tattered silk relic, one hundred years old, to theSheffield side lights, which are more like candel-abra than electric fixtures. The entrance hall, finished in English Colonialstyle, has large wall panels formed by delicatewooden moldings. These panels are covered witha low relief material in tones of buff, whOe theouter surfaces and woodwork are finished inFrench gray. The artist had in mind the conven-tional Colonial colors—the Continental uniformcolors—buff, gray, and the effect is artistic andcharming. The illustration of the hall shows one of the wallpanels occupied by a mirror of very graceful lines. carved in wood and enamel-ed in the gray color of thewoodwork. Various docu-ments and writings on thesubject of Colonial housesindicate that the relief workwas always putty the ornamental relief inthis house has been done incarved wood. Mr. Paris hasan atelier where Beaux-Arts sculptors are engagedin the execution of splendidca
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