"Rooms may be decorated in two ways: by a superficial application of ornament totally independent of structure, or by means of those architectural features which are part of the organism of every house, inside as well as out. In the middle ages, when warfare and brigandage shaped the conditions of life, and men camped in their castles much as they did in their tents, it was natural that decorations should be portable, and that the naked walls of the mediaval chamber should be hung with arras, while a ciel, or ceiling, of cloth stretched across the open timbers of its roof."
- ISBN10 1300102594
- ISBN13 9781300102595
- Publish Date 19 August 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook
- Language English