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Special Correspondence
R. S. | January 16, 1879 issue

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Curious is the comparison between the French and the English work in house-decoration and house-furniture. The Londoners and their followers are not so old-fashioned. Something strange is going on in London; if ones interest is excited by the odd look of the sideboards, awl the wall-painting and tiles, he finds it hard to explain to himself what it is that is at the bottom of this general movement toward novelty of design, and a style of work such as is certainly not slavishly copied from any epoch of the past. There is something characteristic of the two nations, or, at least, of the more thoughtful part of the two nations, in their ornamental work in these branches.

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HOUSE furnishings; PAINTING; MURAL painting & decoration; INTERIOR decoration; BUILDING materials; FRANCE; LONDON (England); ENGLAND
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