Our homes, and how to beautify them . RIBBON-BACK CH I IMEN Flu. 29. SflTTri: (SOUTI! KENSINGTON*).48 AND HOW TO BEAUTIFY THEM. He used as a favourite ornament wheat-ears on shields. His Hnes were gracefal,and some of his finely shaped chair-backs are popular patterns with the furniture-makers of to-da). SHERATON, THE MASTER OF INLAYS. C HERATON, who flourished in the latter half of the century, gave ^ to the rising demand for severity in form and line ; a demand which it iswell to bear in mind had its origin in France. It was in fact the natural recoilfrom the
Our homes, and how to beautify them . RIBBON-BACK CH I IMEN Flu. 29. SflTTri: (SOUTI! KENSINGTON*).48 AND HOW TO BEAUTIFY THEM. He used as a favourite ornament wheat-ears on shields. His Hnes were gracefal,and some of his finely shaped chair-backs are popular patterns with the furniture-makers of to-da). SHERATON, THE MASTER OF INLAYS. C HERATON, who flourished in the latter half of the century, gave ^ to the rising demand for severity in form and line ; a demand which it iswell to bear in mind had its origin in France. It was in fact the natural recoilfrom the extravagance of I^ouis Quinze—that last infirmity of a great age ; a recoil whichaffected the centres of design all over Europe,and manifested itself in architecture, indecoration, and in furniture in a rigorous anddecorous reserve of ornament. Sheratons,like Chippendales, was purely a furniturestyle. His furniture goes with the decora-tive styles of Louis XIY. or Louis XVL Hewas very sparing in his use of carving, andsuch as there was—the little dentil in t
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