A complete course in Period and in your spare time at
- 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 decorator or not; a course that will open the doors to a fascinating and profitable career if you desire
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. XI. 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.
DO YOU KNOW - 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?
-the 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?
- 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 characteristically 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?
THE ARTS & DECORATION
HOME STUDY COURSE IN PERIOD AND
MODERNISTIC INTERIOR DECORATION F
OR more than eight years Arts & Decoration magazine has been conducting the most authoritative, complete and thorough home study course in Period interior decorat
ing in existence. In 1928 it began conducting an authoritative, complete and thorough home study course in Modernistic interior decorating. Until 1930 the Modernistic course was separate from, and supplemen
tary 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 enroll
ment, and at very little greater cost, you will now receive complete training in both Mod
ernistic 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 deco
ration is as easily and as frequently abused and misused. Consequently a sound knowl
edge 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.