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Furnishing The Home With Good Taste
An early 20th century interor decorators book.
Features 105 illustrations, many of which are considerably enlarged.
It should interest people furnishing period style houses.
This ebook is NOT for resale or distribution
Copyright 2006 All Rights Reserved
Contents
The Illustrations
Preface
Egypt and Greece
The Renaissance in Italy
The Development of Decoration in France.
Louis XIV
The Regency and Louis XV
Louis XVI
The Empire
English Furniture from Gothic Days to
the Period of Queen Anne.
Queen Anne
Chippendale and the Eighteenth Century in England.
Robert Adam
Hepplewhite
Sheraton
A General Talk
Georgian Furniture
Furnishing With French Furniture
Country Houses
The Nursery and Play-room
Curtains
Floors and Floor Coverings
The Treatment of Walls
Painted Furniture
Synopsis of Period Styles as an Aid in Buying Furniture.
ILLUSTRATIONS
A modern dining-room
Italian Renaissance fireplace and overmantel, modern
Doorways and pilaster details, Italian Renaissance
Two Louis XIII chairs
A Gothic chair of the fifteenth century
A Louis XIV chair
Louis XIV inlaid desk-table
Louis XIV chair with underbracing
A modern French drawing-room
A drawing-room, old French furniture and tapestry
Early Louis XIV chair
Louis XV bergère
Louis XVI bench
Louis XVI from Fontainebleau
American Empire bed
An Apostles bed of the Tudor period
Adaptation of the style of William & Mary to dressing table
Reproduction of Charles II chair
Living-room with reproductions of different periods
Original Jacobean sofa
Reproductions of Charles II chairs
Reproductions of Queen Anne period
Reproduction of James II chair
Reproduction of William and Mary chair
Gothic and Ribbonback types of Chippendale chairs
Chippendale mantel mirror showing French influence
Chippendale fretwork tea-table
Chippendale china cupboard
Typical chairs of the eighteenth century Chippendale Chair Splats
Chippendale and Hepplewhite sofas
Adam mirror, block-front chest of drawers, and Hepplewhite chair
Two Adam mantels
A group of old mirrors
Dining-room furnished with Hepplewhite furniture
Old Hepplewhite sideboard
Reproduction of Hepplewhite settee
Sheraton chest of drawers
Sheraton desk and sewing-table
Dining-room in simple country house
Dining-room furnished with fine old furniture
Dorothy Quincy's bed-room
George Washington's desk Sheraton secretary
Pembroke inlaid table
Sheraton sideboard
Four post bed
Doorway detail, Compiègne
Reproduction of a bed owned by Marie Antoinette
Reproduction of Louis XVI bed
A Georgian hallway
Rare block-front chest of drawers
A modern living-room
Curtain treatment for a summer home
Hallway showing rugs
Hallway showing rugs
Colonial bed-room
Dining-room with paneled walls
Four post bed owned by Lafayette
Modern dining-room
Four post bed
3 Reproductions of Adam painted furniture
Three-chair Sheraton settee
Reproduction of a Sheraton wing-chair
Slat-backed (Shaker style) chair
Group of chairs Pie-crust table
Groups of chairs
Reproduction of Jacobean buffet
Group of mirrors
Adaptation of Georgian ideas to William and Mary dressing table
Reproduction of William and Mary settee
Two Adam chairs
Jacobean day-bed
Reproductions of Chippendale table and Hepplewhite desk
Reproduction of Sheraton chest of drawers
Reproduction of William and Mary chest of drawers
A modern sun-room
Sheraton sofa
Hepplewhite chair and nest of tables
Chippendale wing-chair
Modern paneled living-room
Empire bed
Hancock desk,
Fine old highboy