The Decoration of Houses
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (876 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0094EID8E |
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| Number of Pages | : | 195 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Look Inside misleading" according to J.. The original book is excellent------however,this edition is atrocious. The Look Inside display says it is of the hardcover, and I expected the paperback to have the same contents.It nowhere resembles the original or later excellent reprints--three columns per page with minuscule type and no photos or illustrations. Quite a travesty.Buy a good used edition or one of the older available quality reprints.This has been trashed; it is be. Moccasin said Edith Wharton describes houses of her time. This is shown with only Ogden Codman Jr's name as author, but it was written by Edith Wharton. Miss Wharton was the epitome of high class in her time, and I read this book with great interest. She staged the homes in her novels with these principles in mind. I learned a great deal about the implications for the American aristocracy she so well writes about in her other books. She describes the surroundings, and thus the shape of the. "Despite the elegant cover photo this is a practical design book on making an American home comfortable and livable" according to Doug McCartney. I loved reading this book; it's about an age when homes were lived in instead of places that you park your BMW between commutes. I bought it hoping for insights into how to design a home to make it comfortable and it fulfilled that matter exceptionally well. It provides design guidance for the layouts of all the basic elements of a home: walls; doors; windows; fireplaces; ceilings; floors; halls; stairs. You'll have to convert the c
The Decoration of Houses brings to mind the pictures of Walter Gay: There are the reflections in looking-glasses, and on parquet, and the garnitures of chimney-pieces, boiseriers, the odor of wax; outside the tall glazed doors there is a sunny silent terrace, we are now at Mrs. Wharton's Pavillon Colombe-a well laid out parterre, a rose garden, and an orchard of Reinette apples and luscious double cherries.". One of the classic works on interior decoration, Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses offers a comprehensive look at the history and character of turn-of-the-century interior design. Co-written with architect Ogden Codman, Jr., this invaluable reference provides us with numerous keen and practical axioms for house design, such as (1) The better the house, the less need for curtains, and (2) the height of a well-proportioned doorway sho