Excerpt from The Art of Furnishing: On Rational and ?sthetic Principles
"The little volume is full of excellent suggestions for general guidance, and these suggestions may be applied almost as well to work in one style as to work in another. There is much, that is, which the possessor of a Gothic villa may turn to account; there is much that will be useful to the dweller in a house of the new Queen Anne style, and still more which will be of service to those who, living in the common terraces of our suburbs, desire to make their "interiors" as comely as they may be made without special adherence to a particular style, which circumstances make impossible, but with a general regard to good taste. The writer of this book seems very much impressed with the fact that in the making of our furniture right principles of construction will keep a thing valuable and pleasant, so that we may stick to it all our lives without fear of the caprice of fashion; and it is one of the merits of his book that, while very fully appreciating the great strides that have been made in the art of furniture and decoration during the last half-dozen years, he does not seek to impose on us the adoption of the style that at the moment of writing may chance to be the most fashionable. The writer is a man of practical experience and artistic feeling. He treats first of such matters as painting and papering - the preparation, that is, of the background against which every figure and every object in the rooms will have to be seen; and then he takes us to the furniture itself, suggesting of course, not each particular piece, but a scheme of general arrangement.
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