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M ay we discuss intimately just what 
Hampton Shops stands for, and what 
its relation is to the entire subject 
of interior arrangemen t and decora tion ? 
SMB I exce ^ ent interior decorators. Much of our finest 
s • ci work has expressed the intuitive artistic sense of our 
p atrons as much as it has resulted from our own tech' 
nical art and decorative resources. 
We are glad to make this acknowledgment. For lacking 
a widespread interest in and appreciation of beautiful furniture 
and its assemblage, it is doubtful if Hampton Shops would so 
quickly have attained its present institutional importance. 
From our very beginning, we had the good fortune to real' 
ize that the basis of adequate decorative expression must be the 
masterpieces of every period. 
Then, however, most of the good furniture in this coun- 
try was in the hands of collectors or was scattered in individual 
pieces—and not available for study and guidance. 
So the principals of our business, and our agents, invaded 
the art centers of Europe. Some of our first meritorious in¬ 
teriors were imported almost intact from the Continent. 
Today, our commissionaires are still culling the artistically 
worthwhile of every period and every land, with a result 
that is best seen in the eleven Galleries of Hampton Shops. 
In original, or faithful replica, the masterpieces of the furni¬ 
ture makers of all times are assembled with intelligent under¬ 
standing against harmonious backgrounds, 
Hampton Shopsoffersa ripened decorative experience, in com¬ 
bination with vast equipment, unlimited resources and far reach¬ 
ing organization, for the enrichment and beautifying of American 
Homes wherever wealth and culture are found in association. 
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