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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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The
modern
apartment
is
an
amazing
illustration
of
the
rapid
development
of
an
idea.
The
larger
ones
are
quite
as
magnificent
as
any
houses
could
be.
I
have
recently
furnished
a
Chicago
apartment
that
included
large
and
small
salons,
a
huge
conservatory,
and
a
great
group
of
superb
rooms
that
are
worthy
of
a
palace.
There
are
apartment
houses
in
New
York
that
offer
suites
of
fifteen
to
twenty
rooms,
with
from
five
to
ten
baths,
at
yearly
rentals
that
approximate
wealth
to
the
average
man,
but
these
apartments
are
for
the
few,
and
there
are
hundreds
of
thousands
of
apartments
for
the
many
that
have
the
same
essential
conveniences.
One
of
the
most
notable
achievements
of
the
apartment
house
architects
is
the
duplex
apartment,
the
little
house
within
a
house,
with
its
two-story
high
living
room,
its
mezzanine
gallery
with
service
rooms
ranged
below
and
sleeping
rooms
above,
its
fine
height
and
spaciousness.
Most
of
the
duplex
apartments
are
still
rather
expensive,
but
some
of
them
are
to
be
had
at
rents
that
are
comparatively
low--rents
are
always
comparative,
you
know.
Fortunately,
although
it
is
a
far
cry
financially
from
the
duplex
apartment
to
the
tidy
three-room
flat
of
the
model
tenements,
the
"modern
improvements"
are
very
much
the
same.
The
model
tenement
offers
compact
domestic
machinery,
and
cleanliness,
and
sanitary
comforts
at
a
few
dollars
a
week
that
are
not
to
be
had
at
any
price
in
many
of
the
fine
old
houses
of
Europe.
The
peasant
who
has
lived
on
the
plane
of
the
animals
with
no
thought
of
cleanliness,
or
indeed
of
anything
but
food
and
drink
and
shelter,
comes
over
here
and
enjoys
improvements
that
our
stately
ancestors
of
a
few
generations
ago
would
have
believed
magical.
Enjoys
them--they
do
say
he
puts
his
coal
in
the
bath
tub,
but
his
grandchildren
will
be
different,
perhaps!
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