Wallace Nutting Windsors : correct Windsor furniture. . ure. It isalways clumsy, unsanitary, inartistic andcovers a multitude of sins. Never place a large piece in a very smallroom. Never buy restored furniture. See it in therough. Never buy stories about former owners. Iftrue they are unimportant. Never hang wall decorations by a singlewire. Never mix styles in one room as orientalwith European, or oak and mahogany. Never buy for age without style. Never neglect details, as hardware. Never trust your own taste unless it ishighly trained. Never show your furniture unless requested. Never envy.
Wallace Nutting Windsors : correct Windsor furniture. . ure. It isalways clumsy, unsanitary, inartistic andcovers a multitude of sins. Never place a large piece in a very smallroom. Never buy restored furniture. See it in therough. Never buy stories about former owners. Iftrue they are unimportant. Never hang wall decorations by a singlewire. Never mix styles in one room as orientalwith European, or oak and mahogany. Never buy for age without style. Never neglect details, as hardware. Never trust your own taste unless it ishighly trained. Never show your furniture unless requested. Never envy. Men are better than things. Never fib about furniture. The only lies notimmoral are fish A HALL FURNISHED IX WINDSORS The Redemption of the Windsor Chair ALL persons of taste and discern-. ment will be glad that at lastsomeone has had courage to undertakethe redemption of the Windsor construction of this chair waspeculiarly liable to degeneration, evenin the old days, and since 1800 prac-tically none have been made that wereworthy. It was so easy to scamp workon seats and turnings and the best de-sign was so difficult to get that manyvery early chairs were poorly together on good lines was notpossible for the average experience obtained in exam- ining many hundred old Windsors andthe possession by him of more than onehundred of the finest examples enabledMr. Wallace Nutting to establish astandard turning for the two principaltypes, the Philadelphia which was first,and the taper-turned, or Northern,which came next. Both were made inand around Pennsylvania, but theearlier or blunt arrow foot was notmade in New York and New Englandtowallacenuttingwi00nutt
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