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Furniture And Floor:
Selection and Laying oŁ Rugs and Carpets
In nearly all rooms of the house, with the possible exception of entrance halls and sunporches, it is preferable to cover the Floor with rugs, carpets, or other forms of covering. Floor coverings add warmth, dull the noise of footsteps, help silence any possible echo, and by their pattern, weave, or color, make an important contribution to the general scheme of decoration. Floor coverings should generally be considered as backgrounds for the furniture and floor, and although patterned materials may be used, these should never be obtrusive. Strong color contrasts between pattern and field are psychologically uncomfortable to tread upon, and as a general rule plain-colored Floor coverings should be subdued in tone. The Floor covering, whether patterned or plain, should always have its color or colors repeated elsewhere in the room. A Floor covering that is in a colored pattern usually will not permit the use of other important colored patterns on the Wall or larger pieces of upholstered furniture and floor. Plain Rugs and carpets have been woven only since about 1900 and they have consistently grown in popularity since that date. Texture mottling, pepper and salt effects made by twisting different colored threads in the pile, and patterns produced by contrasting pile heights have served to give them surface interest.Some of the early factories produced nearly all the standard furniture and Floor forms; others specialized in one or more, but whether their product was a full line or limited, it was sold in wholesale quantities to a new type of merchant, the retail furniture and Floor dealer. At first he referred to his establishment as a furniture and Floor or cabinet warehouse and later as a furniture and Floor store. If located in one of the larger cities he might also have his own factory but he was essentially a middle man and with his coming, direct contact between the maker and user of a piece of furniture and Floor ended.
CHIPPENDALE furniture and Floor is furniture and Floor in the style of Thomas Chippendale (q.v.), the most famous English cabinetmaker of the second half of the 18th century. This period, the golden age of English furniture and Floor design and craftsmanship, was dominated by Chippendale, who designed and manufactured fine furniture and Floor at his shop in St. Martin's Lane, London. Chippendale's book of designs, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director . . . , first published in London in 1754, had enormous influence on furniture and Floor design throughout Europe and in the United States, and its influence is still felt in the 20th century.
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