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Among the traditional works on interior decor, Edith Wharton's The Adornment of Houses offers a comprehensive look at the history and personality of turn-of-the-century home design. Co-written with architect Ogden Codman, Jr., this priceless guide provides us with numerous willing and useful axioms for house design, such as (1) The better the home, the less dependence on drapes, and (2) the elevation of your well-proportioned doorway should be twice its width.In what of John Barrington Bayley, President of Classical America, "this booklet has charm. The Adornment of Houses brings to head the pictures of Walter Homosexual: There will be the reflections in looking-glasses, and on parquet, and the garnitures of chimney-pieces, boiseriers, the scent of wax; outside the tall glazed doorways there is a sunlit silent terrace, we are now at Mrs. Wharton's Pavillon Colombe-a well organized parterre, a increased garden, and an orchard of Reinette apples and luscious dual cherries."
