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Title: American homes and gardens
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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oil paintings by Rene Vin-cent. We have no catalog—our furnitureis not that sort. We will send you Char-acter in Furniture for fifteen two centstamps. If you ask we will also send you freeThe Story of Berkey & Gay telling howthe ambition of twoyoung men establishedGrand Rapids as the /7/^0furniture center of Am- //-T^erica. It should fire the I I -Jambition of your boy. m*. Berkey Q? Gay Furniture C 178 Monroe Ave., Grand Rapids, Michigan This inlaid rk of honor identifies to you eachBerkey & Gay piece Sample and Circular Free A House Lined with Mineral Wool as shown in these sections, is Warm in Winter,Cool in Summer, and is thoroughly DEAFENED.The lining is vermin proof; neither rats, mice,nor insects can make their way through or live in it.MINERAL WOOL checks the spread of fire andkeeps out dampness. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED LONGITUDINAL SECTION. CROSS-SECTION THROUGH FLOOR. U. S. Mineral Wool Co. 140 Cedar St., NEW YORK CITY XVIII AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS Marcvi, 1913
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GOOD TASTE u;T is open to doubt, says an editorial1 writer in the New York Evening Post,whether in practice we are as faithful to-day to the principles of good taste as we areconscious of them in theory. Our pride inhaving escaped from the Victorian uglinessin architecture, in. furniture, and in decora-tion is undoubtedly justified. In search forthe beautiful we have gone back to theantique, the Middle Ages, and the eigh-teenth century in England. The thingswith which our great middle classes sur-round themselves are in line, in proportion,in color, more beautiful than they wereforty years ago. But when it comes to themore abstract elements of sincerity and ap-propriateness, we have less cause for self-congratulation. Victorian houses weregloomy and Victorian furniture was un-comfortable. But there is exaggeration inthe intensity with which we have gone infor comfort. Contemners of the Victoriantaste are in the habit of saying that thehouses and the furniture of the period wereas narr

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