October, 1906 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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Period Furnishing 

 and Decorating 

 Specialized 



FRENCH 



RENAISSANCE 



COLONIAL 



Designers, like other folks, have their limitations. They naturally " snuggle up " to the styles they love 

 best — they are specialists. 



As a firm, we are one, with the resources and responsibilities of a business organization. As decorators, 

 we are individuals — each with his specialty and his hobby. Our organization is unique and our service ideal. 



If you are not getting expert service, your room may prove to be "between late Abraham Lincoln and 

 early parlour car." 



Do you want the room in, say, the dainty Marie Antoinette or any of the French periods, the chaste 

 Sheraton or now classic Chippendale ? Our Mr, WHYBROW would be handed your plans for personal 

 attention, as he has the pedigrees and histories of these types at his finger tips, and his colour schemes 

 and harmonies would show the soul and sentiment of these incomparable styles. 



Or shall you want a Whistler, Walter Crane, Voysey or Flemish Room, or do you love the festive 

 Pompeian or the lofty Italian renaissance ? Here is where our Mr. VERBECK, the recognized authority 

 on these periods would do his little specialty. 



Possibly you must have quaint and stately Colonial things or have a country house or vine-clad cottage, 

 and hope to obtain the old atmosphere : cool, quiet, shady living rooms and sweet, chintz bed-rooms. Our 

 Mr. CROSSLEY would give your needs the best that is in him. As a connoisseur, his judgment on 

 Colonial pieces is the final word, and his colour schemes will help along your ideals for a story-book house. 



We invite you to call at our studios, or will wait upon you at your house anywhere in the United States. 

 Or we shall, upon request, send you colour-schemes with attendant samples of wall papers and stuffs or 

 colour sketches if you will send on a rough plan of your room or house. Also, if you are collecting pieces of 

 furniture, let us know in what you are interested, and half-tone engravings will go forward — no obligation to 

 purchase on your part, no importunity on ours. 



Write for literature and booklets. 



The Verbeck, Whybrow & Crossley Co. (incorporated) 



Period Furnishers and Decorators 

 Two Hundred Ninety-Eight Fifth Avenue, New York 



Louis XVI. Chair No. 200 



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200 1 •-! in' t lone ' 



.is, made In elthei gold, 



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Carrisbrooke Winged Chair 

 No. 201 



< n f our collection <<f old 



English reproductions. 



'I be Btj le "i this 1- Jacobean, 

 :u](l with suitable antique fabi Ic 

 is :i most "com! \ " and ai 1 letic 

 iilil pattern. 



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1*4, The Kimball 



Soloist 



Enables the performer 

 to execute certain 

 parts like the flute, 

 oboe, clarinet, etc, 

 and to furnish simul- 

 taneously an orches- 

 tral accompaniment. 



The extreme simplicity of this idea adds mate- 

 rially to the strength of its position. Its opera- 

 tion is direct and perfect, and it is always ready for 

 action, easily governed, and with the simplest direc- 

 tions gives the correct interpretation. 



Residence pipe-organs of large and small capacity 

 are built with this Soloist, or solo-device, but they 

 can also be played in the regular way, making instru- 

 ments for professionals or those without training. 



Call or write for particulars. 



W. W. Kimball Co. 



(ESTABI 1SHED 18S7) 



Southwest Corner Wabash Avenue and Jackson Boulevard, Chicago 

 New York Office, 150 Fifth Avenue 



These Two Tables 



from the 



Bradstreet 

 Shops and 

 Crafthouse 



represent the art of exclusive design 

 for which we are famous 



In JIN-DI-SUGI Finish 



which means an imitation of Japanese driftwood with all the color of age. 

 Cryptomeria, seemingly buried a thousand years, had taken on this same 

 beautiful color when taken from the bog in Japan, and hence the term 



JIN-DI-SUGI 



means "a thousand years" to these industrious people. 



We build these elegant 

 tables principally from cy- 

 press, which lends its elegant 

 grain so admirably to this 

 particular finish; but you can 

 have them in spruce, cedar 

 or chestnut, as you elect. As 

 we are known solely by the 

 work we produce, we invite 

 you to write for clearer pho- 

 tos and descriptions of same. 

 These tables are finished 

 either in brown or green. 



The charm of all that 

 characterizes our work can 

 not be had elsewhere; is 

 yours for the effort of be- 

 coming acquainted. Would 

 you know us better 1 



John S. Bradstreet & Co. 



328 South 7th St.. Minneapolis, Minn. 



