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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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Wall
clocks
first
came
into
France
in
the
early
part
of
the
Seventeenth
Century,
and
are
a
part
of
the
furnishing
of
all
the
fine
old
French
houses.
A
number
of
the
most
interesting
clocks
I
have
picked
up
were
the
wooden
models
which
served
for
the
fine
bronze
clocks
of
the
Eighteenth
Century.
The
master
designer
first
worked
out
his
idea
in
wood
before
making
the
clock
in
bronze,
and
the
wooden
models
were
sold
for
a
song.
I
have
one
of
these
clocks
in
my
dining-room.
It
is
as
much
a
part
of
the
wall
decoration
as
the
lights
or
the
mirrors.
The
wall
clocks
I
like
best
are
fixed
directly
on
the
wall,
the
dial
glass
opening
so
that
the
clock
may
be
wound
with
a
key.
You
will
notice
such
a
clock
in
the
photograph
of
one
of
my
dining-rooms.
This
fine
old
clock
is
given
the
place
of
honor
in
the
main
panel
of
the
wall,
above
the
console
table.
I
often
use
such
a
clock
in
a
dining-room,
just
as
I
use
the
fine
old
French
mantel
clocks
in
my
drawing-rooms.
You
will
observe
a
very
quaint
example
of
the
Empire
period
in
the
illustration
of
my
drawing-room
mantel.
This
clock
is
happily
placed,
for
the
marble
of
the
mantel,
the
lighting-fixtures
near
by
and
the
fine
little
bronze
busts
are
all
in
key
with
the
exquisite
workmanship
of
the
clock.
In
another
room
in
my
house,
a
bedroom,
there
is
a
beautiful
little
French
clock
that
is
the
only
object
allowed
on
the
mantel
shelf.
The
beautiful
carving
of
the
mirror
frame
back
of
it
seems
a
part
of
the
clock,
a
deliberate
background
for
it.
This
is
one
of
the
many
wall
clocks
which
were
known
as
bracket
clocks,
the
bracket
being
as
carefully
designed
and
carved
as
the
clock
itself.
Most
of
the
clocks
we
see
nowadays
grew
out
of
the
old
bracket
models.
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