Regency Household: A Saloon

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A SALOON The designs of many of our villas particularly those erected about forty or fifty years ago contained circulartopped windows to the central and in some cases to all the apartments of the ground floor and although it has been usual in such cases to consider the windows as square topped concealing the spandrels by the upper draperies yet the opportunity of producing a variety of form in the designs of furniture is very desirable The annexed plate therefore represents draperies suited to such windows the arrangement of which from its architectural and simple elegance is adapted to the saloon and the accessories are in correspondence The saloon being an apartment of communication and through which the principal rooms are approached the prevailing colours should harmonize with them and yet be of such cool or subdued character as will produce in the others an effect of greater brilliancy The curtains may notwithstanding have that character of richness that will give importance to the saloon and allow it to join with the superior apartments in effecting a general richness and splendour

From Modern Furniture Consisting of Forty-four Coloured Engravings (1823).

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