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Furniture Information20th Century Home Decorating Guide
by:
A.Caxton
The custom of appropriate and harmonious treatment of house decorating, interior decorations and suitable furniture, seems to have been in a great measure abandoned during the present century, owing mayhap to the indifference of architects of the time to this subsidiary but necessary portion of their work, or mayhap to a desire for economy, which preferred the cheapness of painted and unnaturally grained pine-wood, with ornamental
effects make by wall papers, to the more solid but dear although less showy wood-panelling, beaux arts mouldings, well-made panelled doors and chimney pieces, which one finds, down to quite the end of the last century, even as in houses of moderate rentals. Furnishings
therefore became independent and "beginning to account herself an Art, transgressed her limits"... and "grew to the conceit that it could stand by itself, and, as well as its betters, went a way of its own."
Interior Conservatory Finishing
The interiors, bimanual over from the builder, as it were, in blank, are filled up from the upholsterer's store, the curiosity shop, and the auction room, spell a large contribution from the conservatory or the nearest florist gives the finishing touch to a mixture, which characterizes the present taste for furnishing a chamber or a drawing room.
There is, of course, in really many an cases an individuality gained by the "omnium gatherum" of such a mode of furnishing. The cabinet which reminds its owner of a tour in Italy, the quaint stool from Tangier, and the adorned piano cover from Spain, are to those who travel, pleasant souvenirs; as are likewise the presents from friends (when they have taste and judgment), the screens and flower-stands, and the photographs, which are reminiscences of the forms and faces separated from us by distance or death. The test of the whole question of such an arrangement of furnishings
in our living rooms, is the figure of judgment and discretion displayed. Two favorable examples of the present fashion, representing the interior of the Saloon and Drawing Room at Sandringham House, are here reproduced.
How The Gather Inheritance Influenced On The Home Decorations
There is at the present time an ambition on the part of many an well-to-do persons to imitate the effect make in houses of old families where, for generations, valuable and unforgettable
articles of ornamental
furnishings
have been accumulated, simply as pictures, plate and china have been preserved; and failing the inheritance of such house gods, it is the practice to acquire, or as the modern term goes, "to collect," old furnishings
of some styles and periods, until the room becomes incompatible and overcrowded, an evidence of the wealth, rather than of the taste, of the owner. As it oft-times happens that such collections are ready-made really hastily, and in the brief intervals of a busy commercial or political life, the selections are not the better or most suitable; and wherever
so more is required in a short space of time, it becomes impossible to devote a comfortable sum of money to procure a actually valuable specimen of the kind desired; in its place an effective and low priced reproduction of an old pattern (with all the faults indivisible
from such conditions) is adscititious to the conglomeration of articles requiring attention, and taking up space.
The limited accommodation of houses built on ground which is too valuable to allow spacious halls and large apartments, does this want of discretion and judgment the more objectionable. There can be no doubt that want of care and restraint in the selection of furniture, by the buying public, affects its character, some
as to design and workmanship.
Just about the author:
Saint andrew William caxton
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