The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-05-08
Timely House
Furnishing Hints

Everything which can lay claim to
beauty must satisfy two general and
fundamental principles, viz, orderli
mes and fitness. Orderliness may be
divided into Balance, Rhythm, Har-
mony. Fitness may mean suitability
to use, position, means Of execution
and to material used.
Balance is an adjustment between
opposed attractions or pull forces,
bringing about state of repose.
Rhythm refers to grace of suggest.
ed movement brought about by its
obedience to q set law. The figures
developed according to progression
are said to be ryhthmical. Perhaps
the simplest and most frequent ex.
ample is found in the repetition OF
forms in borders and surface pat
terms.
Harmony Is the proper adjustment
between likes and unlikes; I is
consistency in the likeness OF things
Harmonious proportion means strong
similarity with variety in the mea.
sures of things. Good proportion
may have another meaning which
shall explain under fitness to use.
Color harmony demands strong sim
ilarities and yet to be ideal must
have no hint Of monotony.
Obedience to the above prin siples
is the goal toward which we strive
We aim to make all things orderly
and hope for beauty. A supreme case
of orderliness and a perfect salts
faction of the law Of fitness is rare
but beautiful thing.
A thing not adapted to its use can
not be said to be beautiful. Fine lacy
or gauzy couch pillows are not beau
tiful no matter how attractive the
material is of itself. Again, carpets
and rugs with natural flowers and ami
mails, are likewise unfit as things
to be walked upon. Furniture, toe
nice to be used, with weak spindly
legs, or that is too heavy to be east
ly moved, no matter how aesthetic
their other qualities may be
are necessarily to be tabooed.
Likewise its position must be care
fully considered. A thing may be
beautiful in one place and positive
ly ugly in another. The environment
and lighting OF an object does much
to increase or decrease its beauty
A statuette placed against ligh
window will be silhouetted so as e
lose most II not all Of its beauty O
modelling. Rossette forms seem Il
look best in horizontal planes, Will,
the stability of the vertical plane II
greatly enhanced by the bilateral.
Again, all the best art demands
that the workman be not ashamed o
the tools he uses. Woodcarving will
show the cuts of the gouge and CHS
Ell; too much sand paper will detrac
from its character. The properly wo
ven fabric design will necessarily
have a different character from tn,
printed one. Painted tapestry which
is vain attempt at initiating tn,
woven fabric is bad art. Likewis
fabrics which initiate embroidery an,
brocade are necessarily false. Print
ing has a distinct beauty of It's owl
and should not masquerade as some
thing else. Again wall papers are ell
ther printed from wooden or cope
rollers or wood blocks. The effects
should therefore be fiat and any at
tempt at rivaling the art Of the wa
ter color or oil painter in naturalisti
effects will be little short Of burles
que. The art Of the printer, however
may attain just as satisfactory results
in his field, accepting frankly his lin
itations, as the painter In his; tn,