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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar71910newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ing-rooms yield gracefully to xVIarine Mosaic in forms of fish, fruits and flowers. Sea-shore homes are beau- tified by the addition of a touch of Marine Mosaic, either a piazza lamp, a gar- den lantern, unusual and attractive, bringing into play among Nature's wealth of flowers and fol- iage a reminder of the beauties of the deep, or a beautiful window giving a suggestion of the sea. An example of Marine Mosaic in form of dish or cup adds greatly to the at- tractiveness of a well-ap- pointed table and Is a most fitting touch of artistic decoration, while these electrically illuminated fur- nish the effect produced by candle shades, and at the same time is a useful recep- tacle for fruits, flowers, solids or liquids. This adaptation of Marine Mo- saic, for table service, is entirely new and novel. Candle shades, tea and chafing-dish lamp screens are most practical, being at the same time very ornamental and useful, more permanent than any other medium, for they stand heat and are In- flammable. The uses to which Marine Mosaic may be applied as fea- tures of decoration extend the field of opportunity, per- mitting originality of conception In a wide sphere for ex- perimental work, and leads one to enumerate its many possible advantages. New as marine mosaic is as a decorative art it is already a p p a r e nt that it has a large and in- teresting fu- ture before it. It is not only capable of many in- teresting ap- plications, but It gives to forms o t h e rwise familiar, a n e w and gracious art. O 1 d colors take on new hues : old forms seem embellished and vital- ized; famil- iar combinn- t i o n s ap- pear fresh- Electrolier, " Apple Blossoms " ened.
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