Decorative Elements in Architecture Random Observations On the Eternal Fitness
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In this generation alone we have Eastlake and the so-called Modern Gothic to live down, to say nothing of Art Nouveau and Mission. ^ While even a journeyman carpenter would to- day abjure the geometrical atrocities of the late, but not lamented, C. L. Eastlake, there are many examples of his shapeless scaffolding still to be found. The abominations of the Modern Gothic 33 f" DECORATIVE ELEMENTS IN ARCHITECTURE have died a harder death even. Less than twenty years ago the neurasthenic furniture ...of this period pervaded the homes of our best people, and only yesterday the bourgeoisie went into spasms over the Mardi Gras styles, which, if they were nouveau, were certainly nothing besides. The decorator of to-day may find food for thought in the contemplation of these freaks of artistic aberration, and learn from the study of these aesthetic "dont's" how not to do things. He will see that a chair may be doleful or festive, formal or familiar, dainty or robust, masculine or feminine. Furniture need not be inanimate.
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