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THE DECORATION of HOUSES Digitized by the Internet Archive ill? f. THE DECORATION OF HOUSES Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from University of Toronto http://www.archive.org/details/decorationofhousOOwhar "Une forme doit etre belle en elle-meme et on ne doit jamais compter sur le decor applique pour en sauver les imperfections." Composition Decorative. Henri MaYEUX : La TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Introduction xix I The Historical Tradition i II Rooms in General 17 III Walls 31 IV Doors 48 V Windows 64 VI Fireplaces 74 VII Ceilings and Floors 89 VIII Entrance and Vestibule . 103 IX Hall and Stairs 106 X The Drawing-room, Boudoir, and Morning-room . .122 XI Gala Rooms: Ball-room, Saloon, Music-room, Gallery 134 XII The Library, Smoking-room, and "Den". 145 XIII The Dining-room 155 XIV Bedrooms . 162 vii viii Table of Contents PAGE XV The School-room and Nurseries 173 XVI Bric-a-Brac 184 Conclusion 196 Index 199 LIST OF PLATES FACING PAGE I Italian Gothic Chest i II French Arm-chairs, XV and XVI Centuries . 6 III French Armoire, XVI Century lo IV French Sofa and Arm-chair, Louis XIV Period . 12 V Room in the Grand Trianon, Versailles . 14 VI French Arm-chair, Louis XV Period . 16 VII French Bergere, Louis XVI Period . .20 VIII French Bergere, Louis XVI Period . .24 IX French Sofa, Louis XV Period 28 X French Marquetry Table, Louis XVI Period . 30 XI Drawing-room, House in Berkeley Square, London . 34 XII Room in the Villa Vertemati .... 38 XIII Drawing-room at Easton Neston Hall . .42 XIV Doorway, Ducal Palace, Mantua .... 48 XV Sala DEI Cavalli, Palazzo del T .... 54 K List of Plates FACING PACE XVI Door in the Sala dello Zodiaco, Ducal Palace, Mantua 58 XVII Examples of Modern French Locksmiths' Work . 60 XVIIl Carved Door, Palace of Versailles . .62 XIX Salon des Malachites, Grand Trianon, Versailles 68 XX Mantelpiece, Ducal Palace, Urbino . .74 XXI Mantelpiece, Villa Giacomelli .... 78 XXII French Fire-screen, Louis XIV Period . 86 XXIII Carved Wooden Ceiling, Villa Vertemati . 90 in XXIV Ceiling Palais de Justice, Rennes . -92 XXV Ceiling of the Sala degli Sposi, Ducal Palace, Mantua 96 XXVI Ceiling in the Style of Berain .... 100 XXVIi Ceiling in the Chateau of Chantilly . 102 XXVIII Antechamber, Villa Cambiaso, Genoa . 104 XXIX Antechamber, Durazzo Palace, Genoa . 106 XXX Staircase, Parodi Palace, Genoa . 108 XXXI Staircase, Hotel de Ville, Nancy . .112 XXXII Staircase, Palace of Fontainebleau . .116 XXXIII French Armoire, Louis XIV Period . 120 XXXIV Sala della Maddalena, Royal Palace, Genoa . 122 XXXV Console in Petit Trianon, Versailles . 124 List of Plates xi FACING PAGE XXXVI Salon, Palace of Fontainebleau . .126 XXXVII Room in the Palace of Fontainebleau . 128 XXXVIII Lit de Repos, Early Louis XV Period . 130 XXXIX Lit de Repos, Louis XV Period . .130 XL Painted Wall-panel and Door, Chantilly . 132 XLI French Boudoir, Louis XVI Period . 132 XLII Salon a Vitalienne 136 XLllI Ball-room, Royal Palace, Genoa . 138 XLIV Saloon, Villa Vertemati 140 XLV Sala dello Zodiaco, Ducal Palace, Mantua . 140 XLVI French Table, transition between Louis XIV and Louis XV Periods 142 XLVII Library of Louis XVI, Palace of Versailles . 144 XLVIII Small Library, Audley End 146 XLIX French Writing-chair, Louis XV Period . 150 L Dining-room, Palace of Compiegne . .154 LI Dining-room Fountain, Palace of Fontainebleau 156 LII French Dining-chair, Louis XIV Period . .158 LIII French Dining-chair, Louis XVI Period . .158 LIV Bedroom, Palace of Fontainebleau . .162 LV Bath-room, Pitti Palace, Florence . .168 LVI Bronze Andiron, XVI Century . .184 BOOKS CONSULTED FRENCH Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques. 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Conferenze tenute a Firenze La Vita Italiana nel Seicento. NEL 1890. INTRODUCTION ROOMS may be decorated in two ways : by a superficial ap- plication of ornament totally independent of structure, or by means of those architectural features which are part of the organ- ism of every house, inside as well as out. In the middle ages, when warfare and brigandage shaped the conditions of life, and men camped in their castles much as they did in their tents, it was natural that decorations should be porta- ble, and that the naked walls of the mediaeval chamber should be hung with arras, while a del, or ceiling, of cloth stretched across the open timbers of its roof. When life became more secure, and when the Italian conquests of the Valois had acquainted men north of the Alps with the spirit of classic tradition, proportion and the relation of voids to masses gradually came to be regarded as the chief decorative values of the interior. Portable hangings were in consequence replaced by architectural ornament: in other words, the architecture of the room became its decoration. This architectural treatment held its own through every change of taste until the second quarter of the present century; but since then various influences have combined to sever the natural con- nection between the outside of the modern house and its interior. In the average house the architect's task seems virtually confined XX Introduction to the elevations and floor-plan. The designing of what are to- day regarded as insignificant details, such as mouldings, archi- traves, and cornices, has become a perfunctory work, hurried over and unregarded; and when this work is done, the uphol- sterer is called in to " decorate " and furnish the rooms.
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