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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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The
photograph
shown
on
page
108
illustrates
the
possibility
of
using
a
number
of
lighting-fixtures
in
one
room.
The
room
shown
is
my
own
drawing-room.
You
will
observe
that
in
this
picture
there
are
many
different
lights.
The
two
old
French
fixtures
of
wrought
gilt,
which
flank
the
mantel
mirror,
hold
wax
candles.
The
two
easy
chairs
have
little
tables
beside
them
holding
three-pronged
silver
candlesticks.
There
is
also
a
small
table
holding
an
electric
reading-lamp,
made
of
a
Chinese
jar,
with
a
shade
of
shirred
silk.
The
chandelier
is
a
charming
old
French
affair
of
gracefully
strung
crystal
globules.
For
a
formal
occasion
the
chandelier
is
lighted,
but
when
we
are
few,
we
love
the
fire
glow
and
candlelight.
If
we
require
a
stronger
light
for
reading
there
is
the
lamp.
The
photograph
here
given
may
suggest
a
superfluous
number
of
lights,
but
the
room
itself
does
not.
The
wall
fixtures
are
of
gilt,
you
see,
the
candlesticks
of
silver,
the
chandelier
of
crystal
and
the
lamp
of
Chinese
porcelain
and
soft
colored
silk;
so
one
is
not
conscious
of
the
many
lights.
If
all
the
lights
were
screened
in
the
same
way
the
effect
would
be
different.
I
use
this
picture
for
this
very
reason--to
show
how
many
lights
may
be
assembled
and
used
in
one
place.
In
considering
the
placing
of
these
lights,
the
firelight
was
not
forgotten,
nor
the
effect
of
the
room
by
day
when
the
sunlight
floods
in
and
these
many
fixtures
become
objects
of
decorative
interest.
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