This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...may hang beside the old bullion and velvet of a century ago, and sixteenth-century marble and oak may stand on nineteenth-century rush matting, and what a comfort it is if it may! III. % sotiern deetie ftooni. An avowedly modern room (one in which modern upholstery prevails) always seems to.me injured by the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...may hang beside the old bullion and velvet of a century ago, and sixteenth-century marble and oak may stand on nineteenth-century rush matting, and what a comfort it is if it may! III. % sotiern deetie ftooni. An avowedly modern room (one in which modern upholstery prevails) always seems to.me injured by the introduction of antiquities, which, like peculiar shades of colour, and certain classes of ornament, always require carrying out of the picture. They injure the modern manufactures by putting out their light (according to the connoisseur), or by ' looking shabby' (according to the Philistine); and after all they almost disappear in their places, lost and overpowered by the more self-asserting shapes and dyes of machine-cutting and distillation, like timid waifs hunted about and pecked to death. Thus a modern eclectic room may admit modern Oriental objects in sufficiently small quantities, Indian, Chinese, African, and the like, modern German, Swiss, and Russian carving and casts, Italian mosaics, Doulton ware, Minton's china and tiles, and all the best efforts of the nineteenth century. But a medley overstepping the limits of a few hundred years, unless for some very good reason, becomes unpleasant, because the incongruities are powerful enough to strike even the most ignorant. The distinction between an eclectic room furnished upon some reasonable system, and a room furnished after a given period, must here be noted. The one is really a medley, directed with taste; the other reproduces a scene which a contemporary might have viewed, and must have no anachronisms. balanee. In laying down abstract rules for beauty, and for distinguishing what is beautiful in form from what is ugly, we must remember that two great laws chiefly determine the lines and dime...
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