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Identifier: homeinteriors00gard (find matches)
Title: Home interiors
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence), 1836-1915
Subjects: Interior decoration Architecture, Domestic
Publisher: Boston, J.R. Osgood and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Which will be most like home .- Sometime in the dim past we were all fire-worshippers,and in the far future we shall be absorbed in theglorious brightness of which the feeble flickeringblaze of our mortal existence is a typical spark.Our love for the warmth and brightness of thefire is not a thing to be cultivated or analyzed, itis instinctive, a part of every healthy, unpervertednature. I suppose the sumptuous treatment of the fire-place and its accessories is the involuntary trib-ute paid to the beauty of the fire, but the attempt > > nH 3
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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILOEN FOUNDATIONS. FIREPLACES AND BIG WLYDOWS. 189 to enhance this, or any other innate beauty, byornamental surroundings is commonly a miser-able failure. It glows as brightly, sheds its radi-ance as freely and as far, from the uncouth chim-ney of the backwoods cabin as from the polishedand plated bars of the grand salon; and althoughthat may be reckoned a crude taste which prefersthe uncouth chimney, it is surely a narrow viewwhich fails to see the comparative insignificanceof all surroundings, whether coarse or fine. Given a chimney starting from the ground, asevery chimney ought, and five dollars will makea fireplace in each room through which it passes.Common bricks well laid are not incompatiblewith the finishing and furnishing of a family sit-ting-room or chamber. They may be left bare,painted or coated with Portland cement. If con-stantly used, the back will burn out after a time,unless protected by a slab of soapstone, a liningof f

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  • bookyear:1878
  • bookdecade:1870
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Gardner__E__C___Eugene_Clarence___1836_1915
  • booksubject:Interior_decoration
  • booksubject:Architecture__Domestic
  • bookpublisher:Boston__J_R__Osgood_and_company
  • bookcontributor:New_York_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:196
  • bookcollection:newyorkpubliclibrary
  • bookcollection:americana
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