nferior ones. It is rarely that the artistic value of economy isappreciated in the furnishing and decoration of thehome. In most cases it is a deplored necessity,preventing the full realisation of an artistic idealwhich sees no possible perfection but that of costlymagnificence, and which tests the… … <J RrSH-BOTlOMED CH.MR DKSlCNKIl I!V M. 11. BAII.I.IK SCOTT15^ appreciate the beauty of simplicity and restraint,necessity in this case may become a virtue in-deed, and instead of trying to emulate the splen-dours of the palace, so often vulgar, so seldomcomfortable and homely, we may accept…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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