The Furnishings Of Palaces
"Speaking of the fact that William K, Vanderbilt,' said a well known club man the Other evening, "has a room in nis house whieh cost Í175.O0O to furnish, recalls something not generally known - that you can give an order to an agent in New York and secure some rare old furnishings from the palaces of the nobility of Europe. In many of the house of New York millionaires there are many rooms with furnishings once owned by European nobiüty. The same antique f urniture, the same tapestried ceilings and walls, the same wooden ceilings and paneling and richly carved mahogany wainscotmg, Beven feet high, and canvas ceilings adorned with beautiful oil paintings. Sometimes a room is an exact f ac-simile of one that a New York man has happened to see in some palace of Europe, and the cost is often enormous. The peerage are not averse to selling. A few years ago the Duke of Marlborough eold $l,O0O,GCO worthof valuable furnishing?. -Oscar Willoughby Riggs in New York Graphic.
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