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THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL. ESSAYS ON BEDS AND TABLES STOOLS AND CANDLESTIC
40571COOK Clarence. THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL. ESSAYS ON BEDS AND TABLES STOOLS AND CANDLESTICKS. New York: Scribner Armstrong and Company 1881. 4to. Publisher's embossed cloth. Color frontispiece 336 pages illustrations in text throughout. Holzenberg # 69. With its full-color frontispiece "My Lady's Chamber" by Walter Crane Claren Cook's best seller was one of the most popular American books to proselytize new aesthetic decoration of the home. It was modeled after Charles Locke Eastlake's Hints on Household Taste first published a decade before but Coo adds a distinctively American flavor. All the attention to form and function beauty and utility are observed creating a middle class ideal for home decoration that heavily influenced popular taste. The cover design is by Dan Cottier the proprietor of an international chain of decorating firms and a seminal figure in the transmission of Aesthetic ideas from England to America Binding sturdy and tight; covers lightly soiled; contents clean else good. unknown books
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