Examples of household taste (1875) (14759383216)

Identifier: examplesofhouseh00smit (find matches)
Title: Examples of household taste
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Walter, 1836-1886 Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Decorative arts
Publisher: New York, R. Worthington
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library



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Lace : Collective Exhibit of Brussels. if not to betray the sym-metry of a perfect figure.If not well formed by na-ture, it is reasonable andperhaps justifiable thatthey should resort to art;but to go beyond this, tomar their own beauty,—that women should dothis would be inconceiv-able, if we had not theevidence always beforeus. Few women pauseto consider how thesechanges of fashion fromthe simple robe girdledat the waist have beenbrought about; why oneportion of the figure isexaggerated and anothercontracted. We thinkperhaps it would be betterif they did; for certainlyno intelligent woman cando this without discover-ing that sensuality is agoverning motive. On page 267 we illus-trate two different pat-terns of Furniture Silkfrom the Collective Ex-hibit in the French Court. They prove that, notwithstanding the advice of would-be reformers of taste,the public continue to demand the very designs in textile fabrics which they
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Bohemian Glass Vase and Pedestal: Lobmeyr, Vienna 270 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. declaim most against. These instructors say that to have wreaths and garlandsof flowers, imitating nature, woven into a carpet which we walk over, or intoa fabric which we sit down upon, is quite contrary to the canons of aestheticart; yet, for all that, the best skill of French workmen, the most artistic work-