Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1911 — TRUE NOTE IN DECORATION [ARTICLE]

TRUE NOTE IN DECORATION

Fitness of Useful and Ornaments! Articles In Room Must Be First Consideration. The true method of making a room beautiful is to make aH the necessary and useful things in It beautiful; so much is this true that it becomes almost impossible to design a really beautiful room that Is to have-no useful work done In it or natural life lived in it. An architect called upon to design a room sh which nothing more earnest Is to be done than to gossip over afternoon tens has 4 sad job; * - • - * x»t*****m*ii»*m«*** V For ft room most always derive Its dignity or meanness from, mad reflect somewhat, the character and kind of occupation which la Carried on In it. For instance, the studio of sn artist, the study of a man of letters, the workshop of a carpenter,, or the kitchen of a farmhouse, each in Its position and degree, derives a dignity and Interest from the work dene In It. And the things In the room bear some relation to that work, and will be the furniture and surroundings natural to it; as the bench and tools In the carpenter’s shop; the easelft and canvases in the studio; the books and papers in the study; and the bright pans and crockery In the kitchen. All these lend a sense of active, useful, human life to the room, which redeems it from vulgarity, though it be the simplest possible; and no amount of decoration or ornamentation can give dignity or homeliness to a room which is used as a show room, or In which no regular useful Ufa is lived. For In the work room all things have a place by reason of their usefulness, which gives a sense of fitness and repose entirely wanting in a Where a place has obviously had to be found for everything, aft to a drafting room.