Farley, Elsie Sloan

Beautiful Windows. Natural Lighting Effects That Window Shades Can Give You

New York, Home Decorating Service Department, The Columbia Mills, Inc. 1923. First Edition. First edition; 9 1/4 x 6; pp. [1], 4-35; pink wraps, printed in gilt and black; illustrated with numerous photographs; a few small nicks to tips of spine and edges; a bit of spotting, mostly to first and last leaves; overall in very good condition. Written by renowned, early-20th-century, "high-society" interior designer Elsie Sloan Farley - the book targeted "altogether the women who are not going to have a professional decorator." It contained chapters on colors, fabrics, shade rollers, etc. Very good .

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Book number: 003898

Catalogue: Interior Design

Keywords: Interior Design

Harvey, Hope

Scranton Drapery Style Book. Lace, Net, Casement Cloth, Voile and Marquisette. Glass Curtains and Overhangings in Every Room, Designed for the Improvement of All Windows, with Correct Assemblings of the Small Articles That Give Charm and Individuality to Rooms

Scranton, Pennsylvania, Scranton Lace Company, 1929. Second printing, revised; oblong 7 1/2 x 10 3/4; pp. 3-31; stapled red wraps, printed and decorated in black; illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings; light wear to edges and tips of spine; tiny piece of upper corner of back wrap clipped; a few minor spots; in very good condition. Written by noted interior decorator and writer for women's magazines Hope Harvey for the Scranton Lace Company, the booklet presented approximately 77 different window treatments for each room, in the newest, most fashionable designs and colors of the season. Very good .

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Book number: 003897

Catalogue: Interior Design

Keywords: Interior Design

Jones, Mrs. C. S.; Williams, Henry T.

Beautiful Homes. How to Make Them

Rockford, Ill, Rockford Publishing Co. 1885. First edition thus (first part published separately in 1878); 8 x 5 1/2; pp. [7], vi-x, [1], xii-xvi, [1], 4-314, [3], 6-300, [2]; embossed mustard cloth over boards, decorated in gilt and black; illustrated with numerous engravings; rubbed spots to corners and tips of spine; lacking ffep, else complete; hinges a bit weak; repair to title page and occasional smudging to margins; in about good condition. An exceedingly-scarce Victorian work on interior design and furnishing, published at the height of the Aesthetic Movement, it contained two distinctive parts - the first dealing with furniture, wallpaper, carpets, etc. for each room and the second - with window treatment, flower arrangements, lamp shades, embroidered seats, and so on. Of particular interest was the exhaustive sections on curtains and draperies, as given the 19th-century's rapid succession of revival styles, coming to and falling out of fashion, it usually meant that drapery designs were almost never published in books, but were rather issued as groups of plates, to be used and then discarded. Good .

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Book number: 003418

Catalogue: Interior Design

Keywords: Interior Design