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Title: Our doors and windows : how to decorate them
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Cutting and DeLaney (Firm)
Subjects: Windows in interior decoration Latticework Doors Interior decoration
Publisher: Buffalo : Cutting and DeLaney
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has a piece of furniture, which apart from itsmerit as a work of art, has a history curiously uniting the present with the pastages. It is a cabinet, the body of which is simply the unchanged projecting bay-window of a ladysapartment in the inner court of a palace at Rosetta. As the palace itself wasconstructed at least ninehundred years ago, and asall the wood used inits building was cedar,brought, according to tra-dition, from the forests ofthe Lebanon, it is nearlycertain that the centuriesnamed give the age of thisremarkable cabinet. This window has beenbodily removed, withoutany change whatever savethe reversal of its upperand lower portions, andhas been reset in a frameresembling exactly in shapethe original surrounding.The lattice-work, which isthe chief beauty of the cab-inet, has been re-turned andre-varnished, but retains,in every respect, its originalquaint formations. Thetotal result is artistic in theextreme—Froni The CabinetMaker and Art Furnisher,London, March, i88g.
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No. 178. WILL IT LAST? THE MORESQUE STYLE. What W. Tims says about it in The Cabinet Maker and ArtFurnisher, London, Sept., 1888. THE Moresque style, of all others, is eminently suitable for the furnishing anddecorating of the smoking-room. The rich colorings employed by theancient Moors, and the peculiar and varied forms of their once-scanty furni-ture, afford us ample and numerous specimens of excellent ornament which, withbut the slightest modification, can be re-adapted to our more modern requirements.Of late years there has been much popular favor bestowed upon this effectivestyle, but the almost numberless patterns of cheap brackets and tables portendingto be invested with the charm of Anglo-Moorish feeling, only evince the lowestebb of such popular favor. These spurts of fashion—for they are nothing else—certainly come and go with somewhat perplexing frequency ; but if we lookbeyond these smaller evidences of popularity we can certainly detect a more sub-stantial and lastin

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