Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1902 — DECORATIONS IN METALS. [ARTICLE]

DECORATIONS IN METALS.

Modern Design* Inelude Small Objects to Ornament Drawing-Rooms. Nothing probably is more marked at the present time than the tendency to introduce the metals into interior decoration, copper being at present a favorite. The extension of the electric light has created a demand for light hand-wrought fittings in metal, from which the use of that material has been extended to fire screens, stands, or trays, flower and lamp standards, and to all the hundred and oife small objects that crowd the modern drawing room, says the Architectural Record. So far as the architect is concerned, he Is affected by the increased use of metal in the furniture' of doors, in the fittings of all kinds of windows, in grilles In and about the fireplace, is in hoods, blowers, basket grates, fire dogs, etc., as well as in the use of metal moldings to inclose marble or tile linings. Occasionally small doors are cased In beaten plates of. metal, and, in fact, there is no reason why, with the constantly increasing means of cheap production and working of the metals, the practice should not be further extended, as in the coverings of piers, jambs between ranges of small windows, ceilings, and other stiltable places. We know that in the age of Homer great effects were obtained by the metallined interiors of the Hall of the Chieftains, while from Asyrian excavations have been recovered wonderful specimens of metal applied to doors. Metal used for casing purposes in the present day requires to be very thin, and is best mounted on a thin wooden foundation.