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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (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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August, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 295 century, presented in a manner worthy of such fine examples. The Museum for the Arts of Decoration at Cooper Union, New York, is likewise a rich treasure house of deco- rative art and in its galleries can be seen beautiful speci- mens of the wood-carver's art, furniture, fire-gilt bronze furniture mounts, fabrics, painted panels, and a vast quan- tity of other material, all of which is of great value to those who are interested in the arts and crafts of another dav. This museum is especially rich in the work of the "Second French Renaissance," including those great periods of decorative art, named after the monarchs of the time and known as the periods of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI. Here, too, the collection is shown in chronological se- quence and this convenient and logical arrangement enables one to note the gradual transition from one period to the next. The best originals extant have been selected with great care by French connoisseurs as eminently useful and worthy of emulation and embodying all that is best in the French art of the advanced seventeenth and the eighteenth century. Art collections, both public and private, such as these are a great factor in formulating the public taste and must result in a demand for better things in architecture and interior decoration and a more keen appreciation of them. twenty feet deep and bricked up on the sides. This makes an excellent ice box, and perishable food is kept down there, while lemonade and grape juice are hung below in the well for a while, and brought up ice cold. There is a pantry adjoining the kitchen, which is so arranged as to have a continual current of air flowing through it. The flooring is made of very heavy wire netting and the shelves are made of the same material. The air comes through the flooring and from a high window at the north, making this room thoroughly comfortable to work in. The tray wagon is a happy institution. It is made of lead tubing with rubber-tired wheels, and with its aid after- noon tea can be wheeled into the living-room, or meals can be taken out on the porch, with very little trouble. This unique Summer home is both picturesque and prac- tical. There is every comfort and convenience that there was in the house and many things that never could have been found in a conventional home restricted in its range. ' jtffoixagoxofrn) ffixaaQaxa (cj ;;cjj; jejaccctgoooo fcj Woccagnoco ( f^xxx^x^^^rxr^^^^y^^x^^^^-x^^^^^^T^^ WOVEN FURNITURE (Continued from page 276) g^SH^S^^^^^^^EE^^&Es ■»-»m»"»"?-'°E: S^;»a»jca»i^(ii3<»pggSSfc A BARN THAT BECAME A HOUSE (Continued from page 273) ^ qj ro3$fxro^fcaotra$occPi^^fe^ getting of meals. This is done largely by having modern conveniences for cooking and the best possible utensils, while the meals are served simply and attractively. Time and labor are saved by having the kitchen and dining-room in one. This room, which was the former stable, is about twenty by twenty-two feet in size. The coal range and porcelain sink, on one side of the room, are hidden from the dining- room part by the high backs of two settles, which serve as seats at the dining table. The range and the sink, which were brand new, were great extravagances, but very neces- sary ones. The sink is oatmeal-color, and has brass faucets instead of nickle ones. Galvanized iron also must be used in that part of the country, on account of the rust which comes from the sea dampness. On a table behind the settles is a denatured, alcohol stove with two burners, which is much used in the hot weather. A fireless cooker also saves time and trouble. In one corner of the room there is an old driven well, rying the peacock blue and green from the draperies to the furniture the two were successfully tied together. To accompany a cretonne showing pink roses climbing over a pea-green trellis, the furniture was painted two tones of a soft, tender green, and another set, intended for a Wistaria-room, was painted a beautiful gray, with just a suggestion of mauve showing through the last coat of gray. Some other willow chairs were painted a dark mahogany, almost black, and were just right for a room to be done in the Chinese taste, where the walls were covered with a natu- ral-colored grass-cloth, and the draperies and cushions were of black chintz in which dark reds predominated in the Chinese design. In a room such as this, where things Chinese were taken as the keynote, the "hourglass" chairs already referred to could be used to advantage, and would carry out the spirit of the Chinese decorative scheme. In all of the rooms mentioned, it was planned to use plain wall coverings to counteract the effect of the very decorative fabrics used for draperies and cushions. Tables of the lighter Mission type, with tapering legs, when stained to match the general color scheme, make excel- lent living-room tables to be used with willow furniture. Soft loosely woven fabrics, textiles of flax and rag rugs and like materials and shapes, owing to their loosely woven texture, are fitting accompaniments for woven furniture.
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The two interiors here shown, although of new houses, yet suggest in their furnishings, suitable decorative schemes for the remodeled farmhouse that finds itself transformed into an attractive modern country home.

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