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 109i AGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 2013 The roof is of oak, with the bosses at the inter section gilt. The shields should be painted of their proper colours. At the end of the room is an enclosed bookcase, and opposite each window is a corresponding recess for books ; these recesses may have carved oak doors. In this Design, Mr. Lamb has shown two elegant chairs, a library table, and ^==^ a footstool. Those of our readers who have paid any attention to the remarks which we have made, in different places in the preceding section, on modern furniture, must, by this time, have formed some idea as to what constitutes unity of style in this department of Domestic Architecture. We would direct their attention to the whole of this interior of a library, to the interior of a dining-room, and to each of the pieces of furniture in this, and the two preceding subsections, separately. In every one of these will be found the most perfect unity of style. On examining the chairs, it will be seen that there is not that discrepancy between the hind and the fore legs, that there is in the designs for chairs in the modern style. The backs also of these chairs seem to arise out of the seats, and to be firmly fixed to them, instead of being twisted about in all direc- tions like the chairs in p. 1062. Their forms are no doubt what might be called stiff, in comparison with the forms of the chairs alluded to ; but that stiffness belongs to the style. The tables, we think, are eminently beautiful ; more especially the legs and pillars. SuBSECT. 4. Gothic Furniture for Drawingrooms. 2162. Seats. Fig. 2015 is an oak drawingrcom chair, with a stuffed cushion of blue 2015