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nioi c unarchitectural 



word was never in 

 vented. I crmaneiuA 

 was not sought. To 

 consider seriously the 

 lurnishing of house 

 and home on the basis 

 &amp;gt;1 the knowledge that 

 t h e I u r n i t u re so 

 acquired would have 

 to be lived \\ith for 

 the rest ol one s life 

 made the experiment 

 as hazardous as matri 

 mony Ability to do 

 so reflects an equable 

 ni l well-trained mind 

 and an amount ol 

 knowledge that the 

 layman did not then 

 possess. The connois 

 seur of the eighteenth 

 century was so appre 

 ciative ol line work 

 that he ge n e rail v 

 managed to obtain it, 

 and one s hope is that in (hi; 

 to go one step further aiu 



20. HKKI l.ACK WITH (TI ISI ).\KI)S AT 1 1 FATIIO &amp;gt; I H. 



twentieth century lie may blossom into life again. To be content, then, 

 ave one s house lilted with architectural furniture, shows, at least, that 



the owner has the faculty of being able to make up his mind, that he knows exactly what he wants, and 

 also that he is making a home that shall in each succeeding vear be more a part of himself, rather than 

 the mere furnishing of a house taken for a short period. The former state used to obtain, and in moM 

 cases a man married and lived all his life in one home. In the turmoil of the mechanical age he &amp;gt;eems to 



have lived mostly in 

 the pantechnicon van~ 

 o t the re in over. 

 Because he was very 

 uncomfortable and 

 miserable, he invented 

 a savin:; that &quot; Fools 

 built houses, but \\i--e 

 men lived in pan 

 technicons.&quot; and in 

 divers other ways he 

 pretended that the 

 home and its surround 

 ings was no longer of 

 any consequence, and 

 had. in fact, lost .ill 

 its. significance. Then, 

 like the baby in the 

 tale, he tired of seeing 

 the wheels 1^0 round, 

 and felt once more the 

 ne e-sity of a resting- 

 place where peace 

 might be enjoyed after 

 turmoil, and strength 

 gathered for the living 

 of his arduous life. 

 So the home came into 

 fashion again, and the 



21. DESIGNED BY SIR ROBERT LORIMKR FOR LYMPNE CASTLE. 



