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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Sideboard; Wright &> Mansfield, London. harp and lyre and other implements of music surrounded by a wreath offlowers. These are supported on a vase, the lines of which wind off into abewildering scroll-work of flowers and tendrils. Cornucopias on either handare overflowing with fruit, and above them climbing plants meet and intertwinewith others suspended from above. In this part of the design there is some-thing of oriental richness and feeling, though with a more accurate and carefulbalancing of parts. The scroll within the border and the border itself arethoroughly Eastern in character. INDUSTRIAL ART. 289 As in our modern manner of furnishing the dining-room the sideboard ismade the most conspicuous object in the room, more attention is given to itsdesign and construction than to any other of the pieces of furniture. It is theone object that can be ornamented and decorated to any extent that the fancyof the designer may suggest. Chairs and tables from their construction and
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Majolica Fountain : Daniell &■ Son, London. use can only receive ornamental treatment in design within certain definitelimits, but in the sideboard no rules except those of harmony with the rest ofthe furniture obtain, and as it is essentially a show-piece, it is quite rightthat it should be elaborated accordingly. The Sideboard shown in our illustration on page 288 is selected from theexhibit made by Messrs. Wright & Mansfield, of London, as a fine exampleof the adaptation of our modern methods of decorating to the Queen Annestyle of construction. It will be observed that all the lines of this piece areplain and simple, unrelieved by any other than the most moderate ornamenta- 2go THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. tion, and with numerous broad flat panels. These latter afford an excellentground for the color-treatment and pictorial designs which are so much in vogueat the present time, and consequently they have been seized upon by ourmodern decorator for that purpose. Wh

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