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Our homes, and how to beautify them (1902)

Jennings, H. J · London : Harrison · leaf 41

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stituted a true stvle. But it was the OUR HOMES, last of the French ,st)le.s. There has not even been the ghost of one since. Inmore than a humorous sense, Art stopped short, as Mr. Gilbert puts it, in thecultivated court of the Ii^mpress Josephine. DECORATIVE ART IN ENGLAND. \ A/HEN passing in… … IIG. 16. COLlvT CLIUOAKK IX CAKVED OAK, 1603 (SOUIH KENSINGTON). occasionally to be found, during the .Stuart regime, in the houses of the wealth)-,but it was rarely of English fashioning. Dak panelling, oak beams, and oakfurniture were the general e(]ui|)nient of tile best tlwellings, e\en those…

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