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Fig. 



D 



7. — Good and poor arrangements of 

 mats on a table 



is placed centrally on the large wall space between window and door; 



above it are grouped three pictures of equal size, hung in a straight row 



from straight wires. The tops of win- 

 dow and door are on the same level, 

 and so may be joined by a molding. 

 Other illustrations of the foregoing 

 principle are shown in figures 7 and 8. 

 The arrangement of square mats in 

 diagrams A and B of figure 7 is illogical 

 and poor, because it does not follow, 

 repeat, or fit the structural outlines of 

 the table top. By the same analysis 

 the arrangements shown in diagrams 

 C and D are good. By similar reason- 

 ing it is evident that the arrangement 

 of pictures on a page, illustrated in 

 figure 8, is poor in diagrams A and 

 B and good in diagrams C and D. 



Both reason and visual repose are expressed in the good arrangements 



of figures 7 and 8. 



The diagrams in figure 9 illustrate the second essential of good 



arrangement. In diagram A three windows are placed at wide intervals 



along a wall, thereby breaking both 



the lighting and the wall area into 



several insignificant parts. In diagram 



B the windows are grouped. This 



arrangement is not only more interest- 

 ing than the one shown in A, but it is 



more sensible, since it leaves large wall 



spaces on either hand for furniture. 



Furthermore, a single flood of light 



coming through a group of windows 



is more effective than three separate 



shafts of light that so cross and recross 



each other that it is almost impossible 



to place a piece of furniture or to work 



out a color scheme with any certainty 



of effect. Therefore both sense and 



beauty favor arrangment B. 



These two essential ideas of arrange- 

 ment are general, and hence may be applied to any problem of arrangement 



whether large or small. For instance, thus tested, the old nursery 



Fig. 8 



. — Scattered and orderly arrange- 

 ments of pictures on a card 



