
The Decoration of Houses
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Grace Conlin
One of the classic works on interior decoration, Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses offers a comprehensive look at the history and character of turn-of-the-century interior design. Co-written with architect Ogden Codman, Jr., this invaluable reference provides us with numerous keen and practical axioms for house design, such as (1) The better the house, the less need for curtains, and (2) the height of a well-proportioned doorway should be twice its width.
In the words of John Barrington Bayley, President of Classical America, “this book has charm. The Decoration of Houses brings to mind the pictures of Walter Gay: There are the reflections in looking-glasses, and on parquet, and the garnitures of chimney-pieces, boiseriers, the odor of wax; outside the tall glazed doors there is a sunny silent terrace, we are now at Mrs. Wharton’s Pavillon Colombe—a well laid out parterre, a rose garden, and an orchard of Reinette apples and luscious double cherries.” Public Domain (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Better in print…
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excellent
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Grace Conlin is a magnificent enunciator, but she has no connection to the material. She races along at top speed, even though much of the text involves unfamiliar phrases, or details that need to be visualized. At least once per minute, she emphasizes the wrong word in a sentence, actually slowing down the reader's comprehension as you have to backtrack and mentally restage the sentence--and by that time Grace has zoomed ahead a few sentences more.
The book is bulging with foreign names, obscure vocabulary, and quite a few phrases read in this or that European language (untranslated here, as in the original). The reader's foreign accents are hit or miss, and some terms are introduced with one pronunciation only to get a different one when they reappear later. This reader is my least favorite of all I have encountered, because of her apparent lack of understanding of what she's saying.
The book fell out of copyright ago, and it is easy to find print copies online or in physical versions, complete with the illustrations (the book frequently refers to the illustrations as if we were all looking at them). Because the subject is almost entirely visual and some or most of the visual details will be new to many readers, this one is a poor choice for consuming as an audiobook.
This one would be better in print
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the Decoration of Houses is a classic
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I deleted the book before finishing it. Between the authors and the narrator they made me too irritated to continue it.
Interesting possibilities, shame about the details
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