ading chair, Queen Anne by ancestry;the other might be a high-backed Jacobean.It would not matter so long as they were com-fortable, covered in harmonious fabrics and not soinsistent in their character as to demand certainaccompanying furnishings. In such an interior as this there is a… … THE IDEAL OF INFORMALITY DEMANDS NO ARBITRARY INSISTENCE ON IDENTITY IN PERIOD STYLE and stool, and a dignified old sec-retary desk might stand in one corner. No one piece of furniture, in theproperly considered informal interior,is either essential or non-essential.The necessity lies in the…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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