I got the idea in a villa a little way out of Florence.

Opposite this bow window, on the other side of the room, I shall have niches in the wall and corners for statuary, with shelves for books above and below.

I have some beautiful pieces of marble from Florence and Rome.

The Venus de Milo, Apollo Belvidere, Nydra and Psyche, and Ruth at the Well.

But the crowning glory of this room will be the upper half of the middle window of the bow.