Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples
by Candace Wheeler
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wheeler, Candace, 1827-1923
- Title
- Principles of Home Decoration, With Practical Examples
- Credits
- Produced by Stan Goodman, Susan Skinner and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- NK: Fine Arts: Decorative and Applied Arts, Decoration and Ornament
- Subject
- Interior decoration
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 14302
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14302
- Release Date
- December 8, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Principles of Home Decoration
- 2.Candace Wheeler — New York — Doubleday, Page & Company — 1903 — Published February 1903 — Dining-room in "Pennyroyal" (in Mrs. Boudinot Keith's Cottage, Onteora) — CONTENTS — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — Principles of Home Decoration
- 3.CHAPTER I — DECORATION AS AN ART — " Who creates a Home, creates a potent spirit which in turn doth fashion him that fashioned. "
- 4.CHAPTER II — CHARACTER IN HOUSES — " For the created still doth shadow forth the mind and will which made it. — " Thou art the very mould of thy creator ."
- 5.CHAPTER III — BUILDERS' HOUSES — " Mine own hired house ." — HALL IN CITY HOUSE SHOWING EFFECT OF STAIRCASE DIVIDED AND TURNED TO REAR
- 6.CHAPTER IV — COLOUR IN HOUSES
- 7.CHAPTER V — THE LAW OF APPROPRIATENESS — STENCILED BORDERS FOR BATH-ROOM DECORATION (BY DUNHAM WHEELER) — STENCILED BORDERS FOR HALLS (BY DUNHAM WHEELER)
- 8.CHAPTER VI — KITCHENS
- 9.CHAPTER VII — COLOUR WITH REFERENCE TO LIGHT — SITTING-ROOM IN "WILD WOOD." ONTEORA (BELONGING TO MISS LUISITA LELAND)
- 10.CHAPTER VIII — WALLS, CEILINGS, AND FLOORS — LARGE SITTING-ROOM IN "STAR ROCK" COUNTRY HOUSE — PAINTED CANVAS FRIEZE — BUCKRAM FRIEZE FOR DINING-ROOM
- 11.CHAPTER IX — LOCATION OF THE HOUSE
- 12.CHAPTER X — CEILINGS
- 13.CHAPTER XI — FLOORS AND FLOOR-COVERINGS — SQUARE HALL IN CITY HOUSE
- 14.CHAPTER XII — DRAPERIES
- 15.CHAPTER XIII — FURNITURE — COLONIAL CHAIRS AND SOFA (BELONGING TO MRS. RUTH MCENERY STUART) — COLONIAL MANTEL AND ENGLISH HOB-GRATE (SITTING-ROOM IN MRS. CANDACE WHEELER'S HOUSE) — SOFA DESIGNED BY MRS. CANDACE WHEELER FOR NEW LIBRARY IN "WOMAN'S BUILDING," COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION — RUSTIC SOFA AND TABLES IN "PENNYROYAL" (IN MRS. BOUDINOT KEITH'S COTTAGE, ONTEORA) — DINING-ROOM IN "STAR ROCK" (COUNTRY HOUSE OF W.E. CONNOR, ESQ., ONTEORA) — DINING-ROOM IN NEW YORK HOUSE SHOWING LEADED-GLASS WINDOWS — DINING-ROOM IN NEW YORK HOME SHOWING CARVED WAINSCOTTING AND PAINTED FRIEZE — GLASS WINDOW BY DORA WHEELER KEITH IN HOUSE AT LAKEWOOD (Belonging to Clarence Roof, Esq.) — SCREEN BY DORA WHEELER KEITH IN HOUSE AT LAKEWOOD (Belonging to Clarence Roof, Esq.)
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