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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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Why
then
lend
yourself
to
possible
deception?
Why
pay
for
names
when
museums
are
unable
to
buy
them?
If
your
object
is
to
furnish
your
home
suitably,
what
need
have
you
of
antiques?
The
serious
amateur
will
fight
shy
of
miracles.
If
he
admires
the
beauty
of
line
of
a
fine
old
Heppelwhite
bed
or
Sheraton
sideboard,
he
will
have
reproductions
made
by
an
expert
cabinet-maker.
The
new
piece
will
not
have
the
soft
darkness
of
the
old,
but
the
owner
will
be
planning
that
soft
darkness
for
his
grandchildren,
and
in
the
meantime
he
will
have
a
beautiful
thing
to
live
with.
The
age
of
a
piece
of
furniture
is
of
great
value
to
a
museum,
but
for
domestic
purposes,
use
and
beauty
will
do.
How
fine
your
home
will
be
if
all
the
things
within
it
have
those
qualities!
Look
through
the
photographs
shown
on
these
pages:
there
are
many
old
chairs
and
tables,
but
there
are
more
new
ones.
I
am
not
one
of
these
decorators
who
insist
on
originals.
I
believe
good
reproductions
are
more
valuable
than
feeble
originals,
unless
you
are
buying
your
furniture
as
a
speculation.
You
can
buy
a
reproduction
of
a
Chippendale
ladder
back
chair
for
about
twenty-five
dollars,
but
an
original
chair
would
cost
at
least
a
hundred
and
fifty,
and
then
it
would
be
"in
the
style
and
period
of
Chippendale."
It
might
amuse
you
to
ask
the
curator
of
one
of
the
British
museums
the
price
of
one
of
the
Chippendales
by
Chippendale.
It
would
buy
you
a
tidy
little
acreage.
Stuart
and
Cromwellian
chairs
are
being
more
and
more
reproduced.
These
chairs
are
made
of
oak,
the
Stuart
ones
with
seats
and
backs
of
cane,
the
Cromwellian
ones
with
seats
and
backs
of
tapestry,
needlework,
corded
velvet,
or
some
such
handsome
fabric.
These
reproductions
may
be
had
at
from
twenty-five
to
seventy-five
dollars
each.
Of
course,
the
cost
of
the
Cromwellian
chairs
might
be
greatly
increased
by
expensive
coverings.
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