DOI Artikel:
Wainwright, Shirley B.: On the decoration & furnishing of small rooms
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41870#0014
ON THE DECORATION AND FURNISHING OF SMALL ROOMS
DECORATIVE SCHEME FOR A DINING-ROOM (PAGE 12)
driven, during the last few years, to test by personal experience the effi-
ciency of their domestic organization, and have learnt to their cost the
many imperfections and inconveniences incidental to the traditional ways
of equipping a house. A demand has sprung up on every hand for labour-
saving devices, and many business houses have responded by producing
and putting on the market new types of heating appliances, firegrates,
ovens, etc., designed to assist the housewife in her extremity. Many of
these innovations are of an experimental nature and will doubtless
undergo considerable modification before standardized articles are avail-
able completely satisfying present-day requirements. Sufficient has
already been achieved, however, to suggest that the domestic establish-
ment of the future will be equipped in a way completely unfamiliar to
the period before the war. These labour-saving devices are, for the most
part, outside the scope of this article, except that in any sanely considered
scheme of furnishing and decoration, ample consideration should be
given to questions of convenience and utility. The urgency of labour-
saving should be borne in mind in every detail of furnishing.
If productions of the past are studied it will invariably be found that the
best work has been evolved to meet actual practical requirements existing
at the time. There is every reason to anticipate that the changed con-
ditions in our lives will result in definite modifications and improvements
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DECORATIVE SCHEME FOR A DINING-ROOM (PAGE 12)
driven, during the last few years, to test by personal experience the effi-
ciency of their domestic organization, and have learnt to their cost the
many imperfections and inconveniences incidental to the traditional ways
of equipping a house. A demand has sprung up on every hand for labour-
saving devices, and many business houses have responded by producing
and putting on the market new types of heating appliances, firegrates,
ovens, etc., designed to assist the housewife in her extremity. Many of
these innovations are of an experimental nature and will doubtless
undergo considerable modification before standardized articles are avail-
able completely satisfying present-day requirements. Sufficient has
already been achieved, however, to suggest that the domestic establish-
ment of the future will be equipped in a way completely unfamiliar to
the period before the war. These labour-saving devices are, for the most
part, outside the scope of this article, except that in any sanely considered
scheme of furnishing and decoration, ample consideration should be
given to questions of convenience and utility. The urgency of labour-
saving should be borne in mind in every detail of furnishing.
If productions of the past are studied it will invariably be found that the
best work has been evolved to meet actual practical requirements existing
at the time. There is every reason to anticipate that the changed con-
ditions in our lives will result in definite modifications and improvements
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