Identifier: examplesofhouseh00smit (find matches)
Title: Examples of household taste
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Walter, 1836-1886 Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Decorative arts
Publisher: New York, R. Worthington
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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Punch-bowl ana Goblets: Meriden Britannia Company. of the best class, that their joint work, which may fairly be called productionsof American industry, compare favorably with European examples. In nothing is this desire for sumptuous articles of use more apparent than INDUSTRIAL ART. 61
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Chimney-piece : M. Marchand, Paris. in the decorations and fittings for houses, especially for furniture and fixtures. 62 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. Take for an example the elaborate Chimney-piece exhibited by M. Marchand, ofParis. Only a wealth and a desire for its expression in some permanent form,such as gave encouragement to artists in the most prosperous days of Europe,could inspire such a design as this. Probably fifty years ago there was not amansion in the country where such a magnificent combination of carving andhighly ornate decoration, finding expression in statuary and gilding and poly-chrome enamels, could have been appropriately placed. To-day there is not aprincipal city in the land that has not its houses where this or equally splendidwork could not be properly placed; and if we imagine a room, proportionedto suit this piece, decorated in a like style of richness, and filled with furnitureto correspond with it, we have an apartment that is nothing less than p

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