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De Wolfe, Elsie, 1865-1950 / The house in good taste
(1914)
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Elsie de Wolfe ... . . . . . . . Frentispiece In this hall, simplicity, suitability and proportion are observed . 7 Mennoyer drawings and old mirrors set in panelings . . . . 14 A portrait by Nattier inset above a fine old mantel . . . . 19 The Washington Irving house was delightfully rambling . . 29 A Washington Irving House bedroom .. .... . . 34 Miss Marbury's bedroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 The forecourt and entrance of the Fifty-fifth Street house . . 45 A painted wall broken into panels by narrow moldings . . . 57 A wall paper of Elizabethan design with oak furniture . . . 64 The scheme of this room grew from the jars on the mantel . . 70 A Louis Seize bedroom in rose and blue and cream . . 75 The writing corner of a chintz bedroom ... . . .. Sa Black chintz used in a dressing-room ... . . .. 87 Printed linen curtains over rose colored silk . . . . . . . 92 Straight hangings of rose and yellow shot silk ... . . 97 Muslin glass curtains in the Washington Irving house . . . 103 Here are many lighting fixtures harmoniously assembled in a drawing-room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . zo8 Detail of a fine old French fixture of hand wrought metal . .113 Lighting fixtures inspired by Adam mirrors . . . . . . . xiS The staircase in the Bayard Thayer house . ..... . 127 The drawing-room should be intimate in spirit . . . . . . 138 The fine formality of well-placed paneling ... . . . . 143 The living-room in the C. W. Harkness house at Morristown, New Jersey ... . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Miss Anne Morgan's Louis XVI boudoir . . . .. . . . x6Z
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