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 GRECIAN AND MODERN VILLA FURNITURE. 1059 •i9i6 serving as a seat) and bolster of hair, and a pillow filled with down. These couches we consider as handsome articles. The four feet, being all straight, are equally carved and ornamented. The carved foliage, embracing the frame of the head, and the hand-rail at the back, exhibits a happy specimen of the application of ornament, in sucn a manner as to make it appear as if it arose out of the construction of the article ; the curvature of the frame of the head is of itself highly beautiful, being a modification of the Greek cyma (wave), the most elegant and graceful of all curves ; and, as Mr. Hosking has happily shown, identical with Hogarth's serpentine line of beauty. Couches in small rooms are generally preferred to sofas. 2105. Sofas. Figs. 1917 and 1918 are two Designs for sofas; the ends of which, if desirable, might be made of a similar pattern to those of the preceding couches. The 1917 wifHWiiiiiisiirr coverings and finishings of couches and sofas should harmonise, in colour and material, with the window curtains. The framework of these sofas we consider elegant ; the 1918 ornaments harmonise with the arms on which they are placed, and with one another the general outlines and forms are simple, and the details ricli.