Now! A complete course, at home, in Period and Modernistic

Interior Decorating

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OR more than eight years Arts & Decoration magazine has been conducting the most authoritative, complete and thorough home study course in Period interior decorating in existence. In 192 8 it began conducting an authoritative, complete and thorough home study course in Modernistic interior decorating. Until 1930 the Modernistic course was separate from, and supplementary to, the course in Period or Historic Styles of Decoration.

A year and a half ago we combined these two courses, at only a slight increase in the price originally charged for the Period course alone. Consequently, with only one enrollment, and at very little greater cost, you will now receive complete

THE COURSE

Thirty lessons (lavishly illustrated printed booklets) that can be mastered with ease in
48 weeks utilizing only a few minutes a day of your spare time.
I. The Fixed Background. II. Walls.
III. Windows and Their Treatment.
IV. Ceilings, Floors, Floor Coverings.
V. Lights, Lighting Fixtures. VI. Color, Color Schemes.
VII. Choice and Arrangement of Furniture.
VIII. Decorative Textiles and Hangings.
IX. Choosing, Framing and Hanging Pictures.
X. Painted Furniture and Its Uses.
XI. Furnishing the Apartment.
XII. Historical Backgrounds.
XIII. The Historical Background of Style.
XIV. The Renaissance Style of Furniture.
XV. The Baroque Style in Furniture.
XVI. The Rococo Style in Furniture.
XVII. The Neo-Classic Style in Furniture.
XVIII. Jacobean and Restoration Furniture in England.
XIX. William and Mary, Queen Anne and Early Georgian Styles in Furniture.
XX. The Age of Chippendale in England.
XXI. The Adam Period in England and America.
XXII. American Adaptation of British and Continental Styles.
XXIII. Interior Decoration as a Profession.
XXIV. Problems and Their Practical Solution.
XXV. What Is Modern?
XXVI. Fundamental Idea of Modern Decoration.
XXVII. Modern Styles in Fabrics and Colors.
XXVIII. Modern Furniture.
XXIX. The Spirit of Modern Art.
XXX. Combining Modern with Other Styles.
- how draperies should be related to the room ?
- the proper length for glass curtains and
over-draperies ? - what conditions determine the choice of
curtains for a room? - the kind of floor covering to use when the
upholstery and draperies contain design? - what determines the choice of Oriental
rugs? - what determines the choice of lamps for
certain rooms?
- how wall lights should be placed in a room ? - what is meant by advancing or receding
colors ?
- tlie neutral colors?
- the difference between tones, tints and
shades ? - how to build up a color scheme for a room and what conditions determine the choice of colors?
- what rules determine the placing of furni
ture in a room? - what rules determine the choice of furni
ture for various rooms? - how to combine various styles together in
the same room?
- how texture affects the looks of a fabric?

DO YOU KNOW

- what points are to be considered in select
ing upholstery materials ? - how to make slip covers?
- how to combine various textiles in the
same room?
- when rooms should be left without pictures? - how pictures should be hung ?
- how to hang a group of pictures? - how etchings should be hung?
- why painted furniture is suitable for bed
rooms ? - what three important factors must be ac
complished in furnishing an apartment? - the best colors to use for backgrounds in
an apartment? - how books may best be accommodated in
a small apartment?
- the four great style periods of furniture? - how to distinguish the various period
styles? - what two pieces of furniture are charac
teristically American ? - how to draw patterns for valances and
draperies ?
- how to make a French heading?
- how to design and make draperies for
arched topped windows and doors? - how to make and hang portières? - how to line over-draperies ?
If you possessed the knowledge that would enable you to answer the questions in the box above and in the box on the facing page, it would be of enormous advantage to you in many ways. Yet these are only a few of the hundreds of similar questions that you will be able to answer out of your own knowledge when you have completed

THE ARTS & DECORATION HOME STUDY COURSE IN INTERIOR DECORATION

- a course of tremendous practical and cultural value; a course that will enrich your life, and that will help you greatly and add greatly to your pleasure in all the furnishing and
decorating you do in your own home whether you employ a professional decorator or not ; a course that will open the doors to a fascinating and profitable career if you desire one; a course that you can take at your own convenience, in your own home, in your spare time,
and complete in less than one year; and, finally, a course that will repay its small cost a hundred times over.

And in one respect at least we believe this course is absolutely unique among all courses of study - there isn’t a dull or tedious minute in the whole of it. It is absorbingly interesting from beginning to end : you will find studying it a pleasure and not a task. It is, let us repeat -

A course of study of the utmost interest and value to every man and woman who genuinely cares for a beautiful home, whether large or small, lavish or modest.

training in both Modernistic .decorating and Period decorating, and in the same length of time heretofore required for the Period training alone. It therefore becomes the least costly course of its kind, if comparison is made, as it should be, on the basis of what you receive in return for what you pay.

Modernistic decoration is growing in favor; and its vogue is increasing as more and more people are realizing its true values when properly done. No other style of decoration is as easily and as frequently abused and misused. Conse

quently a sound knowledge of its principles, and of its possibilities and its limitations, has become essential not only to the professional decorator but to all who wish to do their own decorating as well.

DO YOU KNOW - how to measure windows for glass curtains

and over-draperies?
- how to make a festoon drapery? - how to make a cascade drapery?
- how to make and hang Dutch curtains? - how to treat mullioned windows? - when to use Venetian blinds?
- how to attach rings and hooks to draperies and portières ?
- how to make the puffed valance? - how to make a bed canopy?
- how to cut and hang scarf draperies? - how to treat a group of three windows? - how to place rods and poles?
- tite proper draperies for a living room? - the proper draperies for a bedroom? - the proper draperies for a nursery ? - the proper draperies for a library?
- the proper draperies for a dining room?
. - how to select color schemes?
- how to balance a color scheme?
- how to estimate the amount of paint required for a given surface?
- the proper colors for children’s rooms?
. - the proper colors for north rooms and rooms which are sunny?
- the proper tinting colors and glaze colors? - how to remove old wall paper? - how to remove calcimine?
- how to glaze with two or more colors? - how to stencil wall decorations? - the proper paint for radiators ? - how to patch plaster walls?
__how to treat stains and discolorations on
plaster walls?
. - how to hang and paint wall fabrics? - how to wash walls and ceilings?
- how to make new glazing effects match
aged effects?

Let us tell you about this course, the most complete course of its kind in existence. Let us send you this booklet, that describes it in detail and tells you much about decorating as a profession.

READ THESE

extracts from letters recently received:
“Before closing I feel compelled to thank you for the benefits I have ob
tained from your course both culturally and materially. My only regret is that I did not take up the course earlier, since I have had to spend sev
eral hundred pounds altering mistakes
I could not possibly have made with the knowledge gained by the course.
“I take this opportunity to tell you that this course is managed better and is presented in a more interesting manner than any course for home study that I have ever taken or seen.
“Let me mention that I began the course merely as a help in home making. The interesting and clear manner in which the course unfolded, has given me instead a hobby of paramount interest.”
“This course has been of the greatest value to me in planning our new home.”
“I wish to tell you how much I have enjoyed your course in Interior
Decoration. Although I did not take it with the intention of applying it to business, the practical knowledge gained will enable me to cooperate in the furnishing of a new home which I am now building. A. year ago, 1 could not have done this, but now, I feel with some help I can decorate my home with some degree of intelli
gence. T thank you for the interest you have taken in my behalf and I
shall be glad to praise your course to any prospective students.”