Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . uldingsaround. Now the tapestries are more valuable in their completeform, because we are once again beginning to build residences thatcontain at least one dignified apartment large enough to provide abackground for several tapestries of full Renaissance size. AUBUSSON Since the revival of interest in—and knowledge of—
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . uldingsaround. Now the tapestries are more valuable in their completeform, because we are once again beginning to build residences thatcontain at least one dignified apartment large enough to provide abackground for several tapestries of full Renaissance size. AUBUSSON Since the revival of interest in—and knowledge of—tapestriesin the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Aubusson has been thecentre of production of tapestry furniture coverings for the wholeworld—Russia, Germany and the Argentine, as well as England andAmerica. And whilst some of the shops have exploited goods inferiorin structure and materials and dyes, as well as in design, it gives megreat pleasure to testify to the general excellence of Aubusson repro-ductions of French eighteenth century furniture coverings, particu-larly of those after Oudry and Boucher. Plate VII illustratesthe type I mean, inspired by or copied from the tapestry seats andbacks illustrating Lafontaines fables, originated by Oudry forsio. Plate IV—INEXPENSIVE TAPESTRY CHAIR SEATMade in America
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