Principles of home decoration, with practical examples (1903)
Wheeler, Candace, 1827-1923 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 116
design, oreven colour them with pigments—something—anything, which will dis-guise a restraining bound, or make itmasquerade as a luxury. This effort or instinct has set inmotion the machinery of the world.It has created tapestries and brocadesfor castle and palace, and inventedcheap substitutes for… … WALLS, CEILINGS, AND FLOORS 93 opportunities of art to invent thesedisguises; and to do it so thoroughlyand successfully as to content us withfacts which would otherwise be disa-greeable. And we do, by these vari-ous devices, make our walls so hospi-table to our thoughts that we takepositive and…
Interior decoration
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