Dining-room in New York house showing leaded-glass windows

Dining-room in New York home showing carved wainscoting and painted
frieze

Screen and glass windows in house at Lakewood (belonging to Clarence
Root, Esq.)





Principles of Home Decoration




CHAPTER I

DECORATION AS AN ART

"_Who creates a Home, creates a potent spirit which in turn doth fashion
him that fashioned._"


Probably no art has so few masters as that of decoration. In England,
Morris was for many years the great leader, but among his followers in
England no one has attained the dignity of unquestioned authority; and