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Types Are Decorative:
There are unnumbered varieties, sizes, qualities, and mechanical designs for hardware, and the manufacturers' catalogs appear very confusing to those who are not accustomed to this branch of decorative equipment. While a decorator should have a knowledge of the ornamental forms of metalwork that may be required for certain types of doors or furniture, the mechanical design should be checked by a manufacturer's representative or hardware dealer. Serious and quite unexpected errors may easily be made in the proper sizes and types of hinges and locks to be used, even under the simplest conditions.
The great majority of rooms today are furnished with the ordinary, commercial stock-pattern types of hardware, but in the best decorative work the hardware is specially designed and made to order. The latter type is, of course, far more costly and requires more time to produce. A description of the many available types of hardware used by decorators would occupy too much space for the purposes of this book. The reader must be referred to the commercial catalogs of hardware dealers or to the craftsmen who make special-order hardware and metalwork.There is another general classification of Blinds known as woven-wood types. These include bamboo, flat wooden slats, and a handmade type combining thin, Flexible wooden strips and vinyl plastic in a basket weave. All of these types are decorative; they all are designed to reduce glare and permit adequate ventilation, but none of them gives complete privacy. They are operated as a roll that lowers to the window sill.
Americanization of English furniture design was under way by or before 1675 and continued for a century and a half. In the process of adapting these designs to suit the simpler tastes and manner of living current in America, three distinct types of alteration took place. (1) The decorative treatment, usually carving, was simplified or sometimes the design of an entire piece materially altered. (2) Simple English provincial pieces were improved by American cabinetmakers and enhanced by refinements of line or by the addition of niceties in carved or turned decoration. (3) The form and decorative detail of pieces of furniture already out of fashion (or never widely made) in England but which were popular in America were carried to a high point of design and craftsmanship.
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