DOI Heft:
No. 6 (September, 1893)
DOI Artikel:Gibson, J. S.: Artistic houses
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17188#0234
Artistic Houses
because it is old, but I am convinced that such knowledge we ought to insist on being supplied
things have survived to our time because they were with what will satisfy us.
Jie best both in workmanship and design. Look, There is no doubt that the furniture maker, the
for instance, at the chairs in the Dining-room at curtain and carpet factor, and the wall-paper
Harrington Gardens, and in the Drawing-room at stainer would be only too glad to sell us goods
Hampstead. They are designed on simple lines, of better design and make if we on our part
strong and sturdy in the legs, graceful and elabo- would insist on paying a fair price for them. It is
rate in the arms and backs, and no doubt quite common to see chairs, tables, and cabinets
thoroughly well made. The cabinet also in the sold at a price which renders it impossible for the
left-hand corner of the hall, Glencot, neither workmen employed on them to be fairly paid for
elaborate in design nor difficult to manufacture, their labour. This is a state of affairs that is dis-
DINING-ROOM AT HARRINGTON GARDENS. MESSRS. GEORGE AND PETO, ARCHITECTS.
(Photographed by Messrs. Bedford, Lemere &• Co.)
is quiet in effect and satisfying to those who creditable to us in every way, and the remedy is in
can appreciate unostentatious furniture. A more our own hands.
thorough knowledge of the good points of such On the other hand, there are firms who turn out
furniture would enable us to see that the ordinary excellent work, whose name is a guarantee of
dining and drawing-room suites are far from being honest manufacture, and whose designs are in the
what they might become with no greater expen- front rank. The cosy corner, by Messrs. H. &
diture of labour on them than is bestowed at J. Cooper, with its simple balusters and quiet
present. ornament, is an attempt to supply a good article
We have sufficient old furniture about us, in of interior decoration at a moderate price. The
museums, shops and sale-rooms, to ensure our little smoking-room is designed with such ara-
knowing the standard of excellence which has besque ornament as will attract all votaries of
been reached in the past, and having gained that " my lady nicotine"; the brass and copper vessels,
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because it is old, but I am convinced that such knowledge we ought to insist on being supplied
things have survived to our time because they were with what will satisfy us.
Jie best both in workmanship and design. Look, There is no doubt that the furniture maker, the
for instance, at the chairs in the Dining-room at curtain and carpet factor, and the wall-paper
Harrington Gardens, and in the Drawing-room at stainer would be only too glad to sell us goods
Hampstead. They are designed on simple lines, of better design and make if we on our part
strong and sturdy in the legs, graceful and elabo- would insist on paying a fair price for them. It is
rate in the arms and backs, and no doubt quite common to see chairs, tables, and cabinets
thoroughly well made. The cabinet also in the sold at a price which renders it impossible for the
left-hand corner of the hall, Glencot, neither workmen employed on them to be fairly paid for
elaborate in design nor difficult to manufacture, their labour. This is a state of affairs that is dis-
DINING-ROOM AT HARRINGTON GARDENS. MESSRS. GEORGE AND PETO, ARCHITECTS.
(Photographed by Messrs. Bedford, Lemere &• Co.)
is quiet in effect and satisfying to those who creditable to us in every way, and the remedy is in
can appreciate unostentatious furniture. A more our own hands.
thorough knowledge of the good points of such On the other hand, there are firms who turn out
furniture would enable us to see that the ordinary excellent work, whose name is a guarantee of
dining and drawing-room suites are far from being honest manufacture, and whose designs are in the
what they might become with no greater expen- front rank. The cosy corner, by Messrs. H. &
diture of labour on them than is bestowed at J. Cooper, with its simple balusters and quiet
present. ornament, is an attempt to supply a good article
We have sufficient old furniture about us, in of interior decoration at a moderate price. The
museums, shops and sale-rooms, to ensure our little smoking-room is designed with such ara-
knowing the standard of excellence which has besque ornament as will attract all votaries of
been reached in the past, and having gained that " my lady nicotine"; the brass and copper vessels,
216