. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. Fig. 1—An Ornamental Sideboard of Very Questionable Design. 2 has in its direct lines and quiet surfaces the dignity of serviceand it will always be in favor. Fig. i—well, it is quite likesome overdressed, slangy person, and there will soon come a daywhen you will cut his acquaintance. How to know furniture is a leading question to one who isrefurnishing, or to the home planner. Be he ever so fastidious INFLUENCE OF ANTIQUE MODELS 9 in matters and correctness of dress, he may feel quite at a lossin furnishing the rooms of a
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. Fig. 1—An Ornamental Sideboard of Very Questionable Design. 2 has in its direct lines and quiet surfaces the dignity of serviceand it will always be in favor. Fig. i—well, it is quite likesome overdressed, slangy person, and there will soon come a daywhen you will cut his acquaintance. How to know furniture is a leading question to one who isrefurnishing, or to the home planner. Be he ever so fastidious INFLUENCE OF ANTIQUE MODELS 9 in matters and correctness of dress, he may feel quite at a lossin furnishing the rooms of a new home. Heretofore insufficientattention has been given to style or architectural type of ourexteriors in the selection of furniture. Now we do see evidence. Fig. 2—a Buffet Sideboard. of more regard in relation to exterior and interior harmony andin the arrangement as well as purpose of each room. To more clearly illustrate recent discrimination in selectingfurniture, one may take up various back numbers of magazines,which so frequently open, as it were, the door of our homes,permitting us to look within. Do you not see that this livingroom or that library contains an odd assortment of mismatchedfurniture? It is true, such an array does not always indicateabsence of a developing taste for good things in furniture; farfrom it. I should now, while writing, dislike mightly to have a 10 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN newspaper photographer come in and snap-shot some of myfurniture, for way back in the early partnership days did notthe low income decide the selection of this chair or that table?I guard them as jealously as a dog with his foot over a well-earned bone; they represent much that is hallowed with senti-ment. The high chair is fondly
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