Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar71910newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Marine Mosaic By W. Cole Brigham "Moonrise" Lunette over a doorway
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•ARIXE MOSAIC is the artistic adaptation ■^vj of shells, stones and glass, strongly ce- mented to form effects beautiful in color and unusual in design. Marine Mosaic in place of rich stained glass is entirely original and practical. In connection with the metals it is wonderfully harmonious, lending its beauty to such practical and useful articles as fire, table and tea screens of iron construction, lanterns, electric light globes and candle shades framed in brass, and lamp shades leaded. In com- bination with the finer metals, gold, silver and bronze, table utensils are wrought in effects both beautiful and natural, as is shown by the illustrations of the Iris vase, the Mag- nolia loving cup and the fruit dish of Grape design. This art originated in my Studio, Harbor Villa, Shelter Island, N. Y. The mediums for its construction are from nature's storehouse, the fields, beaches and the sea. The field yields its motives in the forms of flowers and fruits of gardens, wild and cultivated, to say nothing of the land- scape effects to which Marine Mosaic so aptly lends itself. The beaches give the material with which it is possible to produce the most delicate tones by shell and pebble. These materials are used in their natural state, no arti- ficial coloring being added, nor any chemical brought tfj play to diminish or soften these quiet tones and delicate shades. The sea, as the fields, furnishes wonderful themes for the displaying of

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