84 TRADITIONAL OR PERIOD STYLES IN FURNISHINGS

PROBLEMS

A sufficient number of problems are listed so that choices winy be made.

1. Use tracings or clippings to show pieces of period furniture
that would look well together.

2. Visit a furniture store, and make selections of furniture which
could be used in the same room.

3. Analyze a dormitory living room to see if some pieces of furni-
1 ture are incompatible with the others in scale, texture, or line.

READING REFERENCES

See also lists on pages 440, 458, and 474,

ARONSON, JOSEPH. The Encyclopedia of Furniture* Crown, 1941,

FREEMAN, RUTH and FREEMAN, G. L. Victorian Furniture. Cen-
tury House, 1950.

MILLER, EDGAR G. The Standard Book of American Antique Fur-
niture. Praeger, 1957.

ORMSBEE, THOMAS. Early American Furniture. Lirrlc, Brown,
1951.

WHITON, SHERRILL. The Elements of Interior Decornhn. Lip-
pincott, 1951.