House & garden's book of interiors, containing over three hundred illustrations of living rooms, dining rooms, libraries, halls, bedrooms, porches, breakfast rooms, nurseries, kitchens, bathrooms and the use of decorative accessories and curtains, together with practical suggestions for the furnishing and decorating of each type of room in the house (1920)
Wright, Richardson Little, 1887-1961 · New York : C. Nast & company · leaf 82
sthat we no longer have time, patience or suffi-cient interest to allow our homes to grow mel-low gradually. This feverish restlessness hasnaturally affected our artisans and discouragedour artists, and for that reason we find ourshops crowded with poor, cheap objects with apurely catch-penny… … On a marquetry table stand a green vasewith bead flowers and a pair of parakeets How often have decorators thus suffered fromthe idiosyncrasies of their clients! As a matter of actual fact, there is abso-lutely no necessity for ornaments at all, unlessas an inspiration, because of their beauty…
Interior decoration
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