The American Architect
Vol. CXIV
Wednesday, July 31, 1918
Number 2223
THE STORY OF KING DAVID.
By William Laurel Harris
IN a ous article an ettort was made to establish a practical and historical basis for a wider
and more general appreciation of the varied uses of open work fabrics in decorative design and textiles ajoure, as valuable details for the architectural embellishment of American homes.
With increasing educational facilities, and the present-day development of knowledge concerning historical periods and styles, the tendency in architecture has been toward more careful planning in all questions concerning ornamental and architectural effects. Little by little this artistic progress has advanced, as the popular conceptions of good taste have slowly improved, and a sense of architectural fitness and beauty has come to influence all the innumerable details of housefurnishings.
Until quite recent years, for instance, locks, hinges and door knobs received but scant consideration in architectural offices and designing rooms throughout America. But to-day special lines of hardware prepared by the best of craftsmen are to be found in every city, and an increasing variety of metal work is constantly required to satisfy the refined judgment of discriminating builders and home makers. A successful architect can no longer
rest contented with a vague knowledge of decorative housefurnishings. To supply his client with the best advice in all matters of home making, the architect must keep himself well informed, not only concerning modern developments in hardware, electric lighting fixtures and other varieties of iron and bronze working, but he is expected to understand the great resources of our day in the extensive realms of fine tapestries, laces, furniture, floor coverings, and all the other stylistic adjuncts of interior decoration and household embellishment.
This necessary information is comparatively easily obtained because of the widespread activity of national advertisers and their agents. If an architect fails to inform himself on these important matters of interior decoration he does so at his financial peril. The client of to-day is apt to be well instructed in the intricate details of appropriate furnishings for his or her contemplated home, even if the architect ignores such questions.
Within the month a case in point has come to the writer’s attention: an architect who is most able in all ordinary structural affairs was entirely discredited by his client because he had neglected the forms and patterns of the lighting fixtures used
Copyright, 1918, The Architectural & Building Press (Inc.)
Vol. CXIV
Wednesday, July 31, 1918
Number 2223
THE STORY OF KING DAVID.
By William Laurel Harris
IN a ous article an ettort was made to establish a practical and historical basis for a wider
and more general appreciation of the varied uses of open work fabrics in decorative design and textiles ajoure, as valuable details for the architectural embellishment of American homes.
With increasing educational facilities, and the present-day development of knowledge concerning historical periods and styles, the tendency in architecture has been toward more careful planning in all questions concerning ornamental and architectural effects. Little by little this artistic progress has advanced, as the popular conceptions of good taste have slowly improved, and a sense of architectural fitness and beauty has come to influence all the innumerable details of housefurnishings.
Until quite recent years, for instance, locks, hinges and door knobs received but scant consideration in architectural offices and designing rooms throughout America. But to-day special lines of hardware prepared by the best of craftsmen are to be found in every city, and an increasing variety of metal work is constantly required to satisfy the refined judgment of discriminating builders and home makers. A successful architect can no longer
rest contented with a vague knowledge of decorative housefurnishings. To supply his client with the best advice in all matters of home making, the architect must keep himself well informed, not only concerning modern developments in hardware, electric lighting fixtures and other varieties of iron and bronze working, but he is expected to understand the great resources of our day in the extensive realms of fine tapestries, laces, furniture, floor coverings, and all the other stylistic adjuncts of interior decoration and household embellishment.
This necessary information is comparatively easily obtained because of the widespread activity of national advertisers and their agents. If an architect fails to inform himself on these important matters of interior decoration he does so at his financial peril. The client of to-day is apt to be well instructed in the intricate details of appropriate furnishings for his or her contemplated home, even if the architect ignores such questions.
Within the month a case in point has come to the writer’s attention: an architect who is most able in all ordinary structural affairs was entirely discredited by his client because he had neglected the forms and patterns of the lighting fixtures used
Copyright, 1918, The Architectural & Building Press (Inc.)