Furnishing the Home of Good Taste: A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today

Project Gutenberg's Furnishing the Home of Good Taste, by Lucy Abbot ThroopThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Author: Lucy Abbot ThroopRelease Date: January 28, 2005 [EBook #14824]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FURNISHING THE HOME OF GOOD TASTE ***Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Susan Skinner and the PG OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team.FURNISHING THE HOME OF GOOD TASTEA BRIEF SKETCH OF THE PERIOD STYLES IN INTERIOR DECORATION WITHSUGGESTIONS AS TO THEIR EMPLOYMENT IN THE HOMES OF TODAYBYLUCY ABBOT THROOPNEW YORK ROBERT M. MCBRIDE & CO.1920 * * * * *1910 THE CROWELL PUBLISHING CO.1911, 1912, MCBRIDE, NAST & CO.1920, ROBERT M. MCBRIDE & CO.NEW AND REVISED EDITIONPublished, September, 1920 * * * * *[Illustration: _Trowbridge & Livingston, architects._A principle which can be applied to both large and smallhouses is shown in the beauty of the panel spacing and the adequatesupport of the cornice by the pilasters ...