Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Year 1909. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> ONE art is democratic in the fullest meaning of that word; all the world follows it as a matter of course kings and queens leading the way slum-dwellers keeping at a remote and pathetic distance; and this art turns houses into homes for that is the result of all furnish- ing whether bad or good. The difference between good and bad furnishing is quite easy to state; the one gives comfort to the body and pleasure to the eye while the other does not but wastes money on jerry-made work as if ugliness and discomfort were not like gambling debts which give hostages to ill-luck. And so the topic of this book is a problem or a set of problems not in a vague something called Decoration but in a direct and tangible benefit to ourselves known as Mother-wit or Common Sense. The greatest con- noisseurs hold very different views on styles of decora- tion and quarrel over them with a blind pugnacity forgetting that discordant tastes are not reconciled by arguments; and so our aim must be to look for a court of arbitration where peace may have a chance of reigning and this court we find in common sense. (MP)