DOI Artikel:
On the interior arrangement and decoration of the house
DOI Artikel:Furniture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19423#0072
Furniture
It is not a little mortifying for all who
have been looking hopefully, if not with
positive confidence, for the develop-
ment of a fresh and vital style in
English furniture design, to be obliged
to acknowledge that enterprise in that
direction has sustained a check which
has temporarily impeded its progress
in this country. However, so unstable
are the caprices of fashion, that there
is no reason to fear that the inventive
impulse has been permanently ex-
tinguished. The next change, which
is sure to come sooner or later, may
afford a powerful stimulus to originality
in design.
Meanwhile the essential conditions
oak-hammered designed by w. a. white, executed
log box by the guild of handicraft, ltd. of all good furniture, of whatsoever
style, old or new, may be briefly con-
sidered. The two main points to which
Tudor times to early Victorian; that is a detail due regard must be paid are, firstly, the material in
comparatively immaterial, provided always that it hand; and, secondly, the particular uses for which
be English of some date or other. The demand any given article of furniture is to be employed,
of the day, then, is practically confined to copies or To these requisites should be added simplicity and
adaptations of the past. soundness of construction.
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oak sideboard designed and executed by hampton & sons, ltd.
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It is not a little mortifying for all who
have been looking hopefully, if not with
positive confidence, for the develop-
ment of a fresh and vital style in
English furniture design, to be obliged
to acknowledge that enterprise in that
direction has sustained a check which
has temporarily impeded its progress
in this country. However, so unstable
are the caprices of fashion, that there
is no reason to fear that the inventive
impulse has been permanently ex-
tinguished. The next change, which
is sure to come sooner or later, may
afford a powerful stimulus to originality
in design.
Meanwhile the essential conditions
oak-hammered designed by w. a. white, executed
log box by the guild of handicraft, ltd. of all good furniture, of whatsoever
style, old or new, may be briefly con-
sidered. The two main points to which
Tudor times to early Victorian; that is a detail due regard must be paid are, firstly, the material in
comparatively immaterial, provided always that it hand; and, secondly, the particular uses for which
be English of some date or other. The demand any given article of furniture is to be employed,
of the day, then, is practically confined to copies or To these requisites should be added simplicity and
adaptations of the past. soundness of construction.
| if iWMkBM . ifj -f it
oak sideboard designed and executed by hampton & sons, ltd.
56