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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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The
furniture
of
every
epoch
records
its
history.
Our
ancestors
of
the
Fourteenth
and
Fifteenth
Centuries
inherited
the
troublous
times
of
their
fathers
in
their
heavy
oaken
chests.
They
owned
more
chests
than
anything
else,
because
a
chest
could
be
carried
away
on
the
back
of
a
sturdy
pack
mule,
when
the
necessity
arose
for
flight.
People
never
had
time
to
sit
down
in
the
Sixteenth
Century.
Their
feverish
unrest
is
recorded
in
their
stiff,
backed
chairs.
It
was
not
until
the
Seventeenth
Century
that
they
had
time
to
sit
down
and
talk.
We
need
no
book
of
history
to
teach
us
this--we
have
only
to
observe
the
ample
proportions
of
the
arm-chairs
of
the
period.
Our
ancestors
of
the
Seventeenth
and
Eighteenth
centuries
worked
with
a
faith
in
the
permanence
of
what
they
created.
We
have
lost
this
happy
confidence.
We
are
occupied
exclusively
with
preserving
and
reproducing.
We
have
not
succeeded
in
creating
a
style
adapted
to
our
modern
life.
It
is
just
as
well!
Our
life,
with
its
haste,
its
nervousness
and
its
preoccupations,
does
not
inspire
the
furniture-makers.
We
cannot
do
better
than
to
accept
the
standards
of
other
times,
and
adapt
them
to
our
uses.
Why
should
we
American
woman
run
after
styles
and
periods
of
which
we
know
nothing?
Why
should
we
not
be
content
with
the
fundamental
things?
The
formal
French
room
is
very
delightful
in
the
proper
place
but
when
it
is
unsuited
to
the
people
who
must
live
in
it
it
is
as
bad
as
a
sham
room.
The
woman
who
wears
paste
jewels
is
not
so
conspicuously
wrong
as
the
woman
who
plasters
herself
with
too
many
real
jewels
at
the
wrong
time!
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