Furnishing The Home Of Good Taste: A Brief Sketch Of The Period Styles In Interior Decoration, With Suggestions As To Their Employment In The Homes Of Today.

To try to write a history of furniture in a fairly short space is almost as hard as the square peg and round hole problem. No matter how one tries, it will not fit. One has to leave out so much of importance, so much of historic and artistic interest, so much of the life of the people that helps to make the subject vivid, and has to take so much for granted, that the task seems almost impossible. In spite of this I shall try to give in the following pages a general but necessarily short review of ihe field, hoping that it may help those wishing to furnish their homes in some special period style. The average person cannot study all the sub- ject thoroughly, but it certainly adds interest to the prob- lems of one's own home to know something of how the great periods of decoration grew one from another, how the influence of art in one country made itself felt in ihe next, molding and changing taste and educating the people to a higher sense of beauty.

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FURNISHING THE HOME OF GOOD TASTE

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

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