The House in Good Taste. Elsie de Wolfe

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664186706

Table of Contents

       I

       THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN HOUSE

       II

       SUITABILITY, SIMPLICITY AND PROPORTION

       III

       THE OLD WASHINGTON IRVING HOUSE

       IV

       THE LITTLE HOUSE OF MANY MIRRORS

       V

       THE TREATMENT OF WALLS

       VI

       THE EFFECTIVE USE OF COLOR

       VII

       OF DOORS, AND WINDOWS, AND CHINTZ

       VIII

       THE PROBLEM OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHT

       IX

       HALLS AND STAIRCASES

       X

       THE DRAWING-ROOM

       XI

       THE LIVING-ROOM

       XII

       SITTING-ROOM AND BOUDOIR

       XIII

       A LIGHT, GAY DINING-ROOM

       XIV

       THE BEDROOM

       XV

       THE DRESSING-ROOM AND THE BATH

       XVI

       THE SMALL APARTMENT

       XVII

       REPRODUCTIONS OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE AND OBJECTS OF ART

       XVIII

       THE ART OF TRELLIAGE

       XIX

       VILLA TRIANON

       XX

       NOTES ON MANY THINGS

       A LITTLE TALK ON CLOCKS.

       A CORNER FOR WRITING.

       STOOLS AND BENCHES.

       PORCELAIN STOVES.

       THE CHARM OF INDOOR FOUNTAINS.

I

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN HOUSE

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      I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will—awakening, development, American Renaissance—it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.

      It is no longer possible, even to people of only faintly æsthetic tastes, to buy chairs merely to sit upon or a clock merely that it should tell the time. Home-makers are determined to have their houses, outside and in, correct according to the best standards. What do we mean by the best standards? Certainly not those of the useless, overcharged house of the average American millionaire, who builds and furnishes his home with a hopeless disregard of tradition. We must accept the standards that the artists and the architects accept, the standards that have come to us from those exceedingly rational people, our ancestors.

      Our ancestors built for stability and use, and so their simple houses were excellent examples of architecture. Their