Our homes, and how to beautify them . plea for inferior work,it is simply a plain statement of the economic conditions compel a rapid output, labour-savingmachinery, and the subdivision among several of workformerly entrusted to one. Far more hurtful in theirinfluence than these devices are the rules of the TradeUnions, which discourage individual excellence, and tryto bring everyone down to a uniformity of listlessmediocrity. It was very different with the Cluilds of theMiddle , which, until they began to degenerate into refectories for alder-men, stimulated and encourag
Our homes, and how to beautify them . plea for inferior work,it is simply a plain statement of the economic conditions compel a rapid output, labour-savingmachinery, and the subdivision among several of workformerly entrusted to one. Far more hurtful in theirinfluence than these devices are the rules of the TradeUnions, which discourage individual excellence, and tryto bring everyone down to a uniformity of listlessmediocrity. It was very different with the Cluilds of theMiddle , which, until they began to degenerate into refectories for alder-men, stimulated and encouraged the best energies of the craftsman. What anoble future there might be for Trade Unionism, and for the various branches otindustrial Art, if thespirit which animatedthe (luilds wereadopted as the guid-ing principle of everytrade , although weshould not dispensewith mechanical pro-cesses, and althoughthe work might stillhave to be subdi-vided, there wouldbe greater loyalty inlabour, kindled by theambition to AND HO W TO BEA UTIFY TBEAf. THE ?? ADAMS STYLE. T^HE style known as Adams. and called after two brothers named Adam,who were the architects of Adelphi Terrace and also of Portland Place,was essentially an architectural style, and in that respect has to be differentiated,not only in its features but in its class, from the purely furniture styles ofChippendale, Ince, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton. It is partly traceable to theexistence, towards the close of the i8th Century, of the amateur of classical art,whose researches and influence helped to reinforce the already existing populardemand for severity in form. Robert Adams work, both in decoration andfurniture, belongs to the neat and chaste earlier classical style. He introducedthe application of composition ornament—a kind of gesso work—to woodwork,and his ornament ran in the direction of festoons of drapery, wreaths of flowerscaught up with rams heads, husks tied with knots of ribbon, and oval
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