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Identifier: cu31924016493417
Title: Book of home building and decoration, prepared in cooperation with and under the direction of the leading manufacturers of the country
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961 Lyman, Clara Brown
Subjects: Interior decoration Furniture House furnishings
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. Doubleday, Page & Co
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rose or other flower adapted for use on aflat surface; not a confusion of life-like flowers bulging from the wall. Naturalforms should be conventionalized, either in size, form, color or all three, before theyare good decoration. Conventionalized means simplified, flattened and applied tosome definite orderly arrangement. Scenic borders are often good if not toorealistic. About seventy-five per cent of figured wall papers are on the wrongprinciple. Therefore, when in doubt about a pattern choose a plain one. All geometric all-over patterns or conventional flower designs in two or threetones of the same color or harmonious colors are apt to be good. An all-over pat-tern which connects or interlaces is usually more pleasing than one composed ofseparate spots. Most scroll patterns are frivolous, meaningless and apt to be bad.Large medallion or shield-shaped designs with scrolly outline form a common typeof distressing pattern. Figures of a pattern should not be too far apart, else we 36

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