Examples of household taste . Piano, Ebony Case : Hallet, Davis &* Co., Boston. of the modern drawing-room. It is usually bow-legged and veneered, badlyshaped and worse decorated. The old-fashioned spinet was decidedly superior. A. Mane. De Interior Decoration Carrington, de Zouche &> Co. F. Faas. Engr. 122 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. as far as looks go, to the modern grand. England in her new Renaissancemakes Greek and Elizabethan drawing-rooms with furniture to match, but shehas not evolved an Eastlake piano, yet. We are glad, therefore, to claim foran American the honor of having
Examples of household taste . Piano, Ebony Case : Hallet, Davis &* Co., Boston. of the modern drawing-room. It is usually bow-legged and veneered, badlyshaped and worse decorated. The old-fashioned spinet was decidedly superior. A. Mane. De Interior Decoration Carrington, de Zouche &> Co. F. Faas. Engr. 122 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. as far as looks go, to the modern grand. England in her new Renaissancemakes Greek and Elizabethan drawing-rooms with furniture to match, but shehas not evolved an Eastlake piano, yet. We are glad, therefore, to claim foran American the honor of having made a Piano that is harmonious both withinand without. This piano placed in a music-room would form, as its use requires itshould, the central and prominent ornament of the apartment. Then thegeneral design and ornamentation are of such a character that they can berepeated, with proper modifications, in all the other articles of furniture insuch a way that each may accord with the others and the tout ensemble beperfect. An interesting feature of the Exhibition is the method which the uphol-sterers, decorators and furniture-dealers have chosen by which to display theirgoods to the best advantage. This method consist
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