The art of home furnishing and decoration

by Frank Alvah Parsons; Kathleen Clinch Calkins; Armstrong Cork Company

The Art of
Home Furnishing
and Decoration

By
FRANK ALVAH PARSONS

President, New York School of Fine and Applied Art
Author of “Interior Decoration—Its Principles and Practice,” Etc.

PUBLISHED BY
Armstrong Cork Company
Linoleum Department
Lancaster, Penna., U. S. A.

SECOND EDITION

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Copyright 1921 by
Armstrong Cork Company
Linoleum Department
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

FOREWORD

Frank Alvah Parsons, President of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, is a leading American authority on interior decoration. He long since has amply demonstrated his wonderful faculty for turning his knowledge to the common good. We know of no man who, with voice and pen, has fought harder or more unceasingly for better taste, for richer, fuller home life.

Mr. Parsons hardly can seem a stranger to the average reader of this book. Indeed, through his writings and lectures, he has become guide and counsellor and the personal friend of thousands of refined men and women, who have accepted the idea so well developed by Mr. Parsons in the following pages, that “Man is what he lives in;” that, generally speaking, man can be no greater or no less than the daily environment in which he works, thinks, and lives.