Title: The art and business of interior decoration
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THE ART AND BUSINESS OF INTERIOR DECORATION
Front Matter
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TO MY ASSOCIATES IN THE ART AND BUSINESS OF INTERIOR DECORATION
AND TO MY WIFE
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED
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THE ART AND BUSINESS OF INTERIOR DECORATION
FOREWORD
It is six years since my first work on decoration was published. During that great and difficult period occurred the most terrible war of all history, which turned the attention of every one of us away from art to other (and I must think) less significant and more transitory things. The tremendous advance in taste that had transpired in this country since 1900 was for the moment at a standstill, to be taken up again about 1920, in a period of depression and loss which made every artistic adventure unusually perilous.
However, the good fight goes on and cannot be stemmed by any other conflict. Our literature, painting, sculpture, music and architecture steadily, if slowly, improve, and our decorative arts follow suit. The interior decorators of New York and other cities have kept steadily at work and have surely felt the growing, deepening influence of this activity.
Like my competitors, I have kept close to the grindstone, and I believe that in these five years I have learned more of decoration than in any of the earlier part of my Kfe. I feel sure that the illustrations of my work in this volume are well above the average of those in " The Decoration and Furnishing of Apartments." I am not so sure, however, that I have progressed correspondingly as a writer upon decorative themes. The practitioner of an art is not generally
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its best critic popular opinion to the contrary, notwithstanding.
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