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The Art of Interior Decoration
by Grace Wood
by Grace Wood
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Contents:
CHAPTER I. HOW TO REARRANGE A ROOM
Method of procedure.......
CHAPTER II. HOW TO CREATE A ROOM
Mere comfort.--Period rooms.--Starting a collection of antique furniture.--Reproductions.--Painted furniture.--Order of procedure in creating a room.--How to decide upon colour scheme.--Study values.--Period ballroom.--A distinguished room.--Each room a stage "set."--Background.--Flowers as decoration.--Placing ornaments.--Tapestry.--Tendency to antique tempered by vivid Bakst colours.
CHAPTER III. HOW TO DETERMINE CHARACTER OF HANGINGS AND FURNITURE-COVERING FOR A GIVEN ROOM
Silk, velvet, corduroy, rep, leather, use of antique silks, chintz.--When and how used.
CHAPTER IV. THE STORY OF TEXTILES
Materials woven by hand and machine, embroidered, or the combination of the two known as Tapestry.--Painted tapestry.--Art fostered by the Church.--Decorated walls and ceilings, 13th century, England.
CHAPTER V. CANDLESTICKS, LAMPS, FIXTURES FOR GAS AND ELECTRICITY, AND SHADES
Fixtures, as well as mantelpiece, must follow architect's scheme.--Plan wall space for furniture.--Shades for lights.--Important as to line and colour.
CHAPTER VI. WINDOW SHADES AND AWNINGS
Coloured gauze sash-curtains.--Window shades of glazed linen, with design in colours.--Striped canvas awnings.
CHAPTER VII. TREATMENT OF PICTURES AND PICTURE FRAMES
Selecting pictures.--Pictures as pure decoration.--"Staring" a picture.--Restraint necessary in hanging pictures.--Hanging miniatures.
CHAPTER VIII. TREATMENT OF PIANO CASES
Where interest centres abound piano.--Where piano is part of ensemble.
CHAPTER IX. TREATMENT OF DINING-ROOM BUFFETS AND DRESSING-TABLES
Articles placed upon them.
CHAPTER X. TREATMENT OF WORK TABLES, BIRD CAGES, DOG BASKETS, AND FISH GLOBES
Value as colour notes.
CHAPTER XI. TREATMENT OF FIREPLACES
Proportions, tiles, andirons, grates.
CHAPTER XII. TREATMENT OF BATHROOMS
A man's bathroom.--A woman's bathroom.--Bathroom fixtures.--Bathroom glassware.
CHAPTER XIII. PERIOD ROOMS
Chiselling of metals.--Ormoulu.--Chippendale.--Colonial.--Victorian.--The art of furniture making.--How to hang a mirror.--Appropriate furniture.--A home must have human quality, a personal note.--Mrs. John L. Gardner's Italian Palace in Boston.--The study of colour schemes.--Tapestries.--A narrow hall.
CHAPTER XIV. PERIODS IN FURNITURE
The story of the evolution of periods.-- Assyria.--Egypt.--Greece.--Rome.--France. --England.--America.--Epoch-making styles.
CHAPTER XV. CONTINUATION OF PERIODS IN FURNITURE
Greece.--Rome.--Byzantium.--Dark Ages.--Middle
Ages.--Gothic.--Moorish.--Spanish.--Anglo-Saxon.--Cæsar's Table.--Charlemagne's Chair.--Venice.
CHAPTER XVI. THE GOTHIC PERIOD
Interior decoration of Feudal Castle.--Tapestry.--Hallmarks of Gothic oak carving.
CHAPTER XVII. THE RENAISSANCE
Italy.--The Medici.--Great architects, painters, designers, and workers in metals.--Marvellous
pottery.--Furniture inlaying.--Hallmarks of Renaissance.--Oak carving.--Metal work.--Renaissance in Germany and Spain.
CHAPTER XVIII. FRENCH FURNITURE
Renaissance of classic period.--Francis I, Henry II, and the Louis.--Architecture, mural decoration, tapestry, furniture, wrought metals, ormoulu, silks, velvets, porcelains.
CHAPTER XIX. THE PERIODS OF THE THREE LOUIS
How to distinguish them.--Louis XIV.--Louis XV.--Louis XVI.--Outline.--Decoration.--Colouring.--Mural Decoration.--Tapestry.
CHAPTER XX. CHARTS SHOWING HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF FURNITURE
French and English.
CHAPTER XXI. THE MAHOGANY PERIOD
Chippendale.--Heppelwhite.--Sheraton.--The Adam Brothers.--Characteristics of these and the preceding English periods; Gothic, Elizabethan, Jacobean, William and Mary, Queen Anne.--William Morris.--Pre-Raphaelites.
CHAPTER XXII. THE COLONIAL PERIOD
Furniture.--Landscape paper.--The story of the evolution of wall decoration.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE REVIVAL OF DIRECTOIRE AND EMPIRE FURNITURE
Shown in modern painted furniture.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
Architecture and interior decoration become unrelated.--Machine-made furniture.--Victorian cross-stitch,
beadwork, wax and linen flowers.--Bristol glass.--Value to-day as notes of variety.
CHAPTER XXV. PAINTED FURNITURE
Including "mission" furniture.--Treatment of an unplastered cottage.--Furniture, colour-scheme.
CHAPTER XXVI. TREATMENT OF AN INEXPENSIVE BEDROOM
Factory furniture.--Chintz.--The cheapest mirrors.--Floors.--Walls.--Pictures.--Treatment of old floors.
CHAPTER XXVII. TREATMENT OF A GUEST ROOM
Where economy is not a matter of importance.--Panelled walls.--Louis XV painted furniture.--Taffeta curtains
and bed-cover.--Chintz chair-covers.--Cream net sash-curtains.--Figured linen window-shades.
CHAPTER XXVIII. A MODERN HOUSE IN WHICH GENUINE JACOBEAN FURNITURE Is APPROPRIATELY SET
Traditional colour-scheme of crimson and gold.
CHAPTER XXIX. UNCONVENTIONAL BREAKFAST-ROOMS AND SPORTS BALCONIES
Porch-rooms.--Appropriate furnishings.--Colour schemes.
CHAPTER XXX. SUN-ROOMS
Colour schemes according to climate and season.--A small, cheap, summer house converted into one of some
pretentions by altering vital details.
CHAPTER XXXI. TREATMENT OF A WOMAN'S DRESSING-ROOM
Solving problems of the toilet.--Shoe cabinets.--Jewel cabinets.--Dressing tables.
CHAPTER XXXII. THE TREATMENT OF CLOSETS
Variety of closets.--Colour scheme.--Chintz covered boxes.
CHAPTER XXXIII. TREATMENT OF A NARROW HALL
Furniture.--Device for breaking length of hall.
CHAPTER XXXIV. TREATMENT OF A VERY SHADED LIVING-ROOM
In a warm climate.--In a cool climate.--Warm and cold colours.
CHAPTER XXXV. SERVANTS' ROOMS
Practical and suitable attractiveness.
CHAPTER XXXVI. TABLE DECORATION
Appropriateness the keynote.--Tableware.--Linen, lace, and flowers.--Japanese simplicity.--Background.
CHAPTER XXXVII. WHAT TO AVOID IN INTERIOR DECORATION: RULES FOR BEGINNERS
Appropriateness.--Intelligent elimination.--Furnishings.--Colour scheme.--Small
suites.--Background.--Placing rugs and hangings.--Treatment of long wall-space.--Men's rooms.--Table
decoration.--Tea table.--How to train the taste, eye, and judgment.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. FADS IN COLLECTING
A panier fleuri collection.--A typical experience in collecting.--A "find" in an obscure American
junk-shop.--Getting on the track of some Italian pottery.--Collections used as decoration.--A "find" in Spain.
CHAPTER XXXIX. WEDGWOOD POTTERY, OLD AND MODERN
The history of Wedgwood.--Josiah Wedgwood, the founder.
CHAPTER XL. ITALIAN POTTERY
Statuettes.
CHAPTER XLI. VENETIAN GLASS, OLD AND MODERN
Murano Museum collection.--Table-gardens in Venetian glass.
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CHAPTER X
TREATMENT OF WORK TABLES, BIRD CAGES, DOG BASKETS AND FISH GLOBES
TREATMENT OF WORK TABLES, BIRD CAGES, DOG BASKETS AND FISH GLOBES
Every bedroom planned for a woman, young or old, calls for a work table, work basket or work bag, or all three, and these furnish opportunities for additional "flowers" in your room; for we insist upon regarding accessories as opportunities for extra colour notes which harmonise with the main colour scheme and enliven your interior quite as flowers would, cheering it up--and, incidentally, its inmates! Apropos of this, it was only the other day that some one remarked in our hearing, "This room is so blooming with lovely bits of colour in lamp shades, pillows, and objets d'art, that I no longer spend money on cut flowers." There we have it! Precisely the idea we are trying to express. So make your work-table, if you own the sort with a silk work-bag suspended from the lower part, your work-basket or work-bag, represent one, two or three of the colours in your room.
If some one gives you an inharmonious work-bag, either build a room up to it, or give it away, but never hang it out in a room done in an altogether different colour scheme.
Bird-cages, dog-baskets and fish-globes may become harmonious instead of jarring colour notes, if one will give a little thought to the matter. In fact some of the black iron wrought cages when occupied by a wonderful parrot with feathers of blue and orange, red and grey, or red, blue and yellow, can be the making of certain rooms. And there are canaries with deep orange feathers which look most decorative in cages painted dark green, as well as the many-coloured paroquet, lovely behind golden bars.
Many a woman when selecting a dog has bought one which harmonised with her costume, or got a costume to set off her dog! Certainly a dark or light brindle bull is a perfect addition to a room done in browns, as is a red Chow or a tortoise-shell cat.
See to it that cage and basket set off your bird, dog or cat; but don't let them become too conspicuous notes of colour in your room or on your porch; let it be the bird, the dog or the cat which has a colour value.
The fish-globe can be of white or any colour glass you prefer, and your fish vivid or pale in tone; whichever it is, be sure that they furnish a needed--not a superfluous--tone of colour in a room or on a porch.
PLATE XIV
Shows narrow hall in an old country house, thought impossible as to appearance, but made charming by "pushing out" the wall with an antique painted tapestry and keeping all woodwork and carpets the same delicate dove grey.
[Illustration: A Narrow Hall Where Effect of Width Is Attained by Use of Tapestry with Vista]
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