NO period in the world’s history ever displayed such wide culture and profound sincerity in all branches of intellectual pursuits as the 13th to the 16th centuries in Italy, the great days of the Revival of Learning.
Never were houses constructed nobler in proportion and style, handsomer in their hangings and other decorations. The splendid cut velvets of Florence, Genoa, and Venice have never lost their old-time vogue, but modern printing machinery has made it possible to reproduce them in wallpaper, with remarkable truth and in a facsimile of the original textures, which appears almost uncanny to the layman.
The background paper used here is an example, reproducing the hangings used in the 15 th- century palace of the famous Duke Federigo da Montefeltro at Urbino in which is the beautifully executed mantel shown above.
WALLPAPER
MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
of the United States
46i EIGHTH AVE., NEW YORK, N.Y.
WRITE TO OUR INTERIOR DECORATION SERVICE BUREAU FOR PRACTICAL CO-OPERATION IN SUPPLYING ARCHITECTS -SAMPLES OF WALLPAPER AND OTHER AIDS TO THE SOLUTION OF SPECIFIC PROBLEMS IN THE DECORATION OF WALLS.
The American Architect published semi-monthly by the Architectural and Building Press, Inc., at 258 Atlantic St., Stamford, Connecticut. Publication Office, Stamford, Conn, and, Editorial and Advertising Offices, 243 West 39th St., New York. Yearly subscription, $6.00. Entered as second-class matter Feb. 19th, 1925, at the Post Office in Stamford, Conn., under the Act of March 3d, 1879. Issue No. £4S3, dated October 20, 1925.
Never were houses constructed nobler in proportion and style, handsomer in their hangings and other decorations. The splendid cut velvets of Florence, Genoa, and Venice have never lost their old-time vogue, but modern printing machinery has made it possible to reproduce them in wallpaper, with remarkable truth and in a facsimile of the original textures, which appears almost uncanny to the layman.
The background paper used here is an example, reproducing the hangings used in the 15 th- century palace of the famous Duke Federigo da Montefeltro at Urbino in which is the beautifully executed mantel shown above.
WALLPAPER
MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
of the United States
46i EIGHTH AVE., NEW YORK, N.Y.
WRITE TO OUR INTERIOR DECORATION SERVICE BUREAU FOR PRACTICAL CO-OPERATION IN SUPPLYING ARCHITECTS -SAMPLES OF WALLPAPER AND OTHER AIDS TO THE SOLUTION OF SPECIFIC PROBLEMS IN THE DECORATION OF WALLS.
The American Architect published semi-monthly by the Architectural and Building Press, Inc., at 258 Atlantic St., Stamford, Connecticut. Publication Office, Stamford, Conn, and, Editorial and Advertising Offices, 243 West 39th St., New York. Yearly subscription, $6.00. Entered as second-class matter Feb. 19th, 1925, at the Post Office in Stamford, Conn., under the Act of March 3d, 1879. Issue No. £4S3, dated October 20, 1925.