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Title: Character and individuality in decorations and furnishings.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Tiffany Studios
Subjects: Decoration and ornament--United States Interior decoration--United States Art objects--Catalogs Trade catalogs--Art objects.
Publisher: Tiffany Studios, New York
Contributing Library: Winterthur Museum Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ist them in the realization oftheir desires. He is successful in the best sensewhen he creates a decorative scheme which unites theindividual preferences of his client with what knowl-edge and experience has demonstrated to be abso-lutely correct and appropriate in style. Whenactuated by these motives, he may be said to befaithful to the trust confided in him and his workbecomes permanent. During the reigns of Louis XIV, XV, andXVI in France, the prevailing impression given bythe interior decorations and furnishings were thoseof delicacy and harmony. The Italian School inthis period is also full of subtle suggestion, but ithas remained for England and more recentlyAmerica, to develop styles which may be said to bethe embodiment of dignity and grace. The evolution of taste during the past hundredand fifty years has been marvelous. In this periodthe Adam brothers, Sheraton, Hepplewhite, andChippendale, fathered the styles which bear theirnames, and which show marked consistency in line,
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C/3 o I—I QDh < Oh M ornament, and color. Later the Colonial style inthis country and the Georgian style in Englandmade proper use of the foregoing styles in the plan-ning of both interiors and exteriors and to-day theserank among the best examples of purity of designand color arrangement. Later came the desire for something new, andfor eighty years or more the iniquities that werecommitted in the names of architecture and interiordecoration were so numerous that nothing escaped.In this country and in England every canon of goodtaste was violated, and every lesson that was learnedduring the preceeding periods was forgotten. Thesewere the days of the marble top table with goldlegs, the pier glasses, plush furniture, bead work,wax flowers, Picturesque America, rosewood fur-niture with little legs and big backs liberally carvedin every available spot with flowers and fruit. Eastand West were alike offenders, but nowhere in theworld was there so much transgression of the prin-ciples

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