Whoever would experience a new sensation, and know for the first time what rich and luxurious objects can be produced in elegant, artistic furniture and soft, charming colors in special art fabrics and reveal those superb interiors that characterize the paintings of Burne-Jones, Alma Tadema, and Rosetti, need only to obtain a glimpse of the exquisitely furnished rooms from the Morris Company.
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This parlor is taken from the country seat of C. F. Clothier, Esq., near Media, Pennsylvania, and is a fine example of the distinctive and inimitable qualities of the celebrated English art fabrics and wood designs after the Morris & Co., London.
The very merits, variety, and suggestions displayed in the constructive skill of the decorator, together with the beauties of designs and materials fronm the Morris Company, are very difficult to portray, and need a more elaborate description.
The wood-work in the room is of finely carved and polished old oak and solid mahogany, the furniture from the Morris Company being a rich and boldly carved dragon design, in mahogany.
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The Morris Company color tones contained in the carpet, furniture coverings, portieres, and curtain draperies are peculiarly Morris, though representing the spirit of true Oriental art.
The Morris Company Wilton carpet:, the ground-work of this decoration needs more than passing notice, as the low, rich harmonies of color, and the soft Indian designs, so pleasingly observable in all of the Morris Company floor coverings, enable the production of a consistent whole in the arrangement of the furniture coverings and draperies, which are at once elegant and artistic.
Over the richly carved mantel, the treatment around the deep beveled glass of the beautiful foliated frame is in the same shades of golden bronze and silver as are repeated in the chandeliers, the cornices over the windows, and the Cairene panels in the doorways. This still further carries out the idea of consistency by making all the upper decorations of the room alike, and which harmonizes beautifully with the frescos on the walls, frieze, and ceilings.
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The chandeliers themselves are elegant examples of artistic metal work from the Morris Company, with their fine chasings and graceful lines, while the Cairene panels, after original designs from Cairo, are one of the richest and most effective decorations, displaying in their Oriental designs the same spirit as that embodied in the carpet.
The whole effect that has been produced is entirely artistic and pleasing to the most fastidious, and illustrates most forcibly what results from that treatment of the Morris Company Art Fabrics, in which is at once discernible the clearly defined conception of the artist decorator, who blends designs and colors in beautiful harmony.
from Godey's Lady's Book, 1885 |
