Late Victorian Decor from Eastlake's Gothic to Cook's House BeautifulAmerican Life Foundation, 1968 - 208 Seiten |
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... things entirely different from those our neighbors have . I know there is a great deal of ridicule expended upon people who follow the fashion ; but we ought to reflect that not to follow the fashion ( the question is now of ways of ...
... things entirely different from those our neighbors have . I know there is a great deal of ridicule expended upon people who follow the fashion ; but we ought to reflect that not to follow the fashion ( the question is now of ways of ...
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... things nowadays , or can make them , and the difficulty of getting things simple and unpre- tending in design is not half so great as we pretend to believe . The trouble , half the time , is with ourselves . We don't want things simple ...
... things nowadays , or can make them , and the difficulty of getting things simple and unpre- tending in design is not half so great as we pretend to believe . The trouble , half the time , is with ourselves . We don't want things simple ...
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... things whose only recommenda- tion to our novelty - loving people is their novelty and their loudness . And all these things - the furniture , the rugs , the pottery - are so cheap , that everybody gets them , and , of the smaller ...
... things whose only recommenda- tion to our novelty - loving people is their novelty and their loudness . And all these things - the furniture , the rugs , the pottery - are so cheap , that everybody gets them , and , of the smaller ...
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American ancient Art Nouveau art-manufacture article of furniture artistic baluster beauty bedrooms bedsteads better bookcase cabinet called carpet carving chairs Charles L cheap colour comfort copy cupboard curves decorative art dining-room dining-table door drawing-room dress Eastlake Eastlake style Eastlake's effect elegant English executed expensive fashion floor frames Frank Lloyd Wright furnish gaselier Gothic Gothic architecture Gothic revival graceful hall Hints on Household House Beautiful Household Taste Hugh Guthrie Jacobean legs light live look luxury mahogany manufacture marble material medieval Messrs modern mouldings never New-York notion objects ordinary ornament painted panels parlor Parquetry pattern picturesque piece of furniture plain plate present principles purpose reader revival rich Rococo rugs shelves shops side sideboard sofa solid wood specimens style surface things Tudor styles ugly Unity Church upholsterers varnish veneering wall William Morris