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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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When
you
have
emptied
the
tables
of
rubbish
so
that
you
can
put
things
down
on
them
at
need,
placed
them
in
a
light
where
you
can
write
on
them
in
repose,
or
isolated
real
works
of
art
in
the
middle
of
them;
when
you
have
set
your
dropsical
sofas
where
you
want
them
for
talk,
or
warmth
and
reading;
when
you
can
see
the
fire
from
the
bed
in
your
sleeping-room,
and
dress
near
your
bath;
if
this
sort
of
sense
of
your
rights
is
acknowledged
in
your
rearrangement,
your
rooms
will
always
have
meaning,
in
the
end.
If
you
like
only
the
things
in
a
chair
that
have
meaning,
and
grow
to
hate
the
rest
you
will,
without
any
other
instruction,
prefer--the
next
time
you
are
buying--a
good
Louis
XVI
fauteuil
to
a
stuffed
velvet
chair.
You
will
never
again
be
guilty
of
the
errors
of
meaningless
magnificence.
To
most
of
us
in
America
who
must
perforce
lead
workaday
lives,
the
absence
of
beauty
is
a
very
distinct
lack.
I
think,
indeed,
that
the
present
awakening
has
come
to
stay,
and
that
before
very
long,
we
shall
have
simple
houses
with
fireplaces
that
draw,
electric
lights
in
the
proper
places,
comfortable
and
sensible
furniture,
and
not
a
gilt-legged
spindle-shanked
table
or
chair
anywhere.
This
may
be
a
decorator's
optimistic
dream,
but
let
us
all
hope
that
it
may
come
true.
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