Hints on House Furnishing book by Walter Shaw Sparrow

Walter Shaw Sparrow

Published by Eveleigh Nash, 1909

About this Item

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Year 1909. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> ONE art is democratic in the fullest meaning of that word; all the world follows it as a matter of course, kings and queens leading the way, slum-dwellers keeping at a remote and pathetic distance; and this art turns houses into homes, for that is the result of all furnish- ing, whether bad or good. The difference between good and bad furnishing is quite easy to state; the one gives comfort to the body and pleasure to the eye, while the other does not, but wastes money on jerry-made work, as if ugliness and discomfort were not like gambling debts, which give hostages to ill-luck. And so the topic of this book is a problem, or a set of problems, not in a vague something called Decoration, but in a direct and tangible benefit to ourselves known as Mother-wit or Common Sense. The greatest con- noisseurs hold very different views on styles of decora- tion, and quarrel over them with a blind pugnacity, forgetting that discordant tastes are not reconciled by arguments; and so our aim must be to loo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hints on House Furnishing book by Walter Shaw Sparrow
• Publisher: Eveleigh Nash
• Publication Date: 1909
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
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