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interesting to refer here to the character of the work done
and illustrated on Plate XXVII., facing page 73. The
first view shows the dining-room of one of four Portuguese
steamers. This room is designed in the Jacobean style.
The walls are framed and panelled in solid walnut, and
all the mouldings, cornices, architraves, pilasters, columns,
pediments, and also the furniture, are beautifully carved.
The floor is laid in mosaic tiles, in geometrical patterns,
with Brussels carpet runners in the passage-ways. The
ceiling is of yellow pine, moulded, ribbed, and broken up
with carved panels, painted a flat white and relieved with
gold. The dome skylight is in teak, with richly-carved
beams and mouldings ; and glazed with embossed plate glass,
while the side windows are fitted with jalousie blinds,
stout double-line teak shutters, and glass bull's-eyes in
brass frames. The upholstery is in crimson Utrecht velvet,
and seating accommodation is provided for sixty-eight
saloon passengers.
The other view on Plate XXVII. illustrates the
drawing-room of the steam yacht Foros, built for M. Kousen-
zoff, of Moscow. It is in the Elizabethan style. The walls
are framed in solid East Indian satinwood, highly finished
and French polished, with figured silk tapestry panels of
a shade that harmonises and blends with the wood-work.
Neat and delicate carving in low relief is introduced where
most effective. The ceiling, of yellow pine, has square
panels of Tynecastle tapestry, relieved with rich carving
in cornices and beams. The room is lighted and ventilated
by eight large round lights in the ship's side, each enclosed
in a recess with a sliding screen of beautifully-stained and
leaded glass. The large circular skylight in the centre of
the room, finished to suit the ceiling, has large opening
sashes, glazed with stained glass. The floor is laid with
oak parquetry, with a Parisian mat in the centre. The room
is heated by a slow-combustion grate with rich brass
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