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This will probably be, therefore, my last book on this subject. I feel that there are still a thousand times as many things to be said upon it. I have aimed, at this point, merely to touch upon certain phases of the work which interested me, and not at all to write an exhaustive work which could be used as a textbook. I hope my readers will regard this merely as a series of essays in decoration, containing a few interesting and possibly important things which have not been said before and which, in my quite personal opinion, required saying.
The book is divided into two entirely distinct parts: the chapters of general discussion at the beginning, and the more specific suggestions of the latter part. Neither section deals with any of its subjects in their entirety, yet I trust that each contains matter of interest and value to those concerned with this rather fascinating subject. There is also an appendix which will be of benefit to those who seek specific information on the illustrations and more detailed descriptions of them.
B. R. H.
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A living room which is also used as a dining room in a city home. The wood panelled walls are constructed as cabinets in which china and glass are kept.
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PART ONE
THE INTERIOR DECORATOR AND
THOSE WHO HELP AND
HINDER HIM
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THE ART AND BUSINESS OF INTERIOR DECORATION
CHAPTER I THE ARCHITECT AND THE DECORATOR
Ax last the architect and the decorator have come out in the open with widespread expression of a criticism that has grown on both sides ever since the awful days some twenty-five years ago when most of the former were builders who had a smattering of structural knowledge and the latter were furniture salesmen who knew something of the manufacture of their merchandise. Of course this does not refer to the one or two great architects of the last generation in New York, or the one or two good decorators, but the exceptions were so few as to be really almost negligible. Things have changed very much since then, and with this change has come a great change in feeling, to which this year's discussion in the various architectural and decorative societies has given voice.
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