Francis de N. Schroeder (Illustrations by Nino Repetto, Henry Stahlhut, and Mario Carreño), Anatomy for Interior Designers, 2nd Ed, and How to Talk to a Client, Whitney Publications, 1948
PROPER PROPORTIONS OF A LOVE SEAT
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Before taking up the important business of getting two or three bodies past each without conflict or resolution, just a word about the decoration upon this page. It represents the most basic of all measurements, the first measuring of the circumference of the earth by Eratosthenes, Librarian of Alexandria in 20 B.C..