American homes and gardens . d Furniture in a Good Architectural Setting 11 ; but clock, chair and sofa are admirable. A tall clock, either an antique or faithfulreproduction (modern hall-clocks areusually monstrosities) is one of those con-venient pieces of furniture which will gomost anywhere—upon a stair-landing, ina corner of the drawing-room, the dining-room, or flat against the wall of the hall-way, as seen in Fig. 11. A sofa is a verydifferent proposition, and needs muchthought before its true mission in a givencase be discovered. Sometimes it will setbefore the fireplace, and again it
American homes and gardens . d Furniture in a Good Architectural Setting 11 ; but clock, chair and sofa are admirable. A tall clock, either an antique or faithfulreproduction (modern hall-clocks areusually monstrosities) is one of those con-venient pieces of furniture which will gomost anywhere—upon a stair-landing, ina corner of the drawing-room, the dining-room, or flat against the wall of the hall-way, as seen in Fig. 11. A sofa is a verydifferent proposition, and needs muchthought before its true mission in a givencase be discovered. Sometimes it will setbefore the fireplace, and again it will will fill a corner becomingly, at times, andthen again it refuses to do so. It has butone place in a hallway, however, and thatplace has been correctly chosen in Fig. 11. Rocking-chairs also are hard to manage,but there are certain orthodox shapes—in-viting and comfortable rocking-chairswhich no collection of chairs in a room iscomplete without, even in a dining-room,for thorough homeyness; and these rocking-. 8—Faulty in Several Respects 9—A Good Dining-room November, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 303
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