Gas fires and their settings / [Sir Lawrence Weaver].

  • Lawrence Weaver
Date:
1929
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Gas fires and their settings / [Sir Lawrence Weaver]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fig. 9. Fire set 9j ins. behind front face of the marble surround which projects 4 in. from the wall, giving a net recess of 5| ins. Fig. 10. Fire set 1 Oj ins. behind front face of architrave which projects 2 ins. from the wall, giving a net recess of 8| ins. as heating units, but econ¬ omy in consumption is not always a primary necessity. On the whole the most popular treatment is to have the gas hre about flush with the wall surface, as shown in Mr. Tapper s Doctors Waiting Room (Fig. 8) and in Mr. Darcy BraddelFs room at Bedford House, Chiswick (Fig. 12). Mr. E. Guy Dawber em¬ phasizes this form of treat¬ ment in its most logical expression, in a West End shop, by providing nothing in the nature of a mantel¬ piece and setting the gas
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