AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF “BUILT UP” LACE CURTAINS.
Such as are being made to-day with materials and hand-worked details from every part of Europe
in a splendid mansion which the architect had designed and built for one of our well known financiers. This client, who is a very influential person in America, now declares that in all the future buildings he has constructed he will employ only structural engineers and decorators working together; and that he has banished forever the idea of employing architects. What this client consid
ered important the architect thought unworthy of attention.
Any negligence concerning the many decorative adjuncts of architecture is particularly noticeable in matters which pertain to window draperies and lace curtains.
Curtains are not only most important and often the dominant features of interior decoration in American homes, but they frequently play a very important role in exterior architectural effects as well. Illustrations pages 131, 135 and 136 show clearly the effective use which architects may make of modern lace panels as intimately related to exterior architectural effects.
An intelligent understanding of styles and period patterns as applied to the draperies of windows tends to increase greatly the harmony of architectural forms and shapes. City houses in particular demand handsome lace panels at the windows, because the whole frontage is frequently devoted to window openings which make or mar the ultimate appearance of the building.
All too frequently the selection of curtains, which in such cases really become important architectural
XVIII CENTURY ITALIAN
BOBBIN LACE, ITALIAN XVII CENTURY
Such as are being made to-day with materials and hand-worked details from every part of Europe
in a splendid mansion which the architect had designed and built for one of our well known financiers. This client, who is a very influential person in America, now declares that in all the future buildings he has constructed he will employ only structural engineers and decorators working together; and that he has banished forever the idea of employing architects. What this client consid
ered important the architect thought unworthy of attention.
Any negligence concerning the many decorative adjuncts of architecture is particularly noticeable in matters which pertain to window draperies and lace curtains.
Curtains are not only most important and often the dominant features of interior decoration in American homes, but they frequently play a very important role in exterior architectural effects as well. Illustrations pages 131, 135 and 136 show clearly the effective use which architects may make of modern lace panels as intimately related to exterior architectural effects.
An intelligent understanding of styles and period patterns as applied to the draperies of windows tends to increase greatly the harmony of architectural forms and shapes. City houses in particular demand handsome lace panels at the windows, because the whole frontage is frequently devoted to window openings which make or mar the ultimate appearance of the building.
All too frequently the selection of curtains, which in such cases really become important architectural
XVIII CENTURY ITALIAN
BOBBIN LACE, ITALIAN XVII CENTURY