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Title: The art of interior decoration
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Wood, Grace Burbank, Emily
Subjects: Interior decoration Furniture
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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serious connoisseurs in the art ofclothes. The dressing-table should be constructed ofmaterial in harmony with the rest of your fur-niture. It may be of mahogany, walnut, rosewood, satin wood, or some painted variety, or, asis the fashion now, made of silk,—a seven-teenth and eighteenth century style (in vogueduring the time of the Louis). These are madeof taffeta with lace covers on top, and in out-line are exactly like the simple dotted-swissdressing-tables with which every one is familiar,—the usual variety, so easily made by placinga wooden packing box on its side. In thiscase have your carpenter put shelves insidefor boots, shoes and slippers. The entire PLATE XXVII 271 Interior decoration not infrequently leads to a desireto chic the appearance of ones out-of-doors. We givean example of a perfectly commonplace barn made inter-esting by adding green latticework, a small iron balcony,an ornamental gate and setting out a few decorative ever-greens. Behold a transformation! 272
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