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Photograph by Jackson & Whitman 
THE MERIT OF SIMPLICITY IN DECORATION 
The simple things are always the hardest—the simple words, the simple poems, the 
simple music and the simple decoration. In this library corner, for example, 
nothing could be simpler than the window treatment, the furniture grouping, the 
paneling, the bookshelves and the historic prints mounting the wall. The room is 
in the residence of A. S. Burden, Esq., of which John Russell Pope was architect 
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