Year: 1875




The Household Art Company Of Boston will
SELL through the Messrs Leayitt Co., this evening
hafpast seven O'Clock, small collection Of furniture
and useful decorative objects in wood, brass and
faience among which few antiques, though by far
the greater part from special designs The House
hold Art Company has for several years engaged
good work Of endeavorng to supply the public with
furniture which shall at the time pleasing TO
the eye suited the purpose for which II intended
and beyond the reach Of short purse. Only those
who have tried find furniture which answers these
three requirements united know the discoura
that attend the search. Between the furniture that
made for the rich or the wel-todo, and tho furni-
ture that supplied TO the general public-and
which is made the principle applied by
the talors to the getting up OF ready madc cloth
ing-thcre has been yet too small middle ground
for comfort pleasure We have in New-York houses
who manufacture as beautiful and well made furniture
as TO be found The Messrs Herer Narcotic
and other wellknown houses have made IL absurd
for a rich New-Yorker-we may as we'll say for rich
American-to 60 out OF city for any article OF house
hold furniture But the NewYorker who is not rich is
obliged content himself with looking in the windows
OF these splendid shops and humInng Coughs refrain


How pleasant It Is TO have money,


How pleasant it is to have money"


The Household Art Company Is applying itself TO sov-
ing the problem how to make little money get a good
deal OF "looks The problem socially and even in its





think the Household Art Company ia ON the right
road to 1t is animated by the right splrit-
that s It proposes to itself good and sensible aim-but
1t is another thing how 1t proposes TO reach that
aim. II has taken for its model n book whose success
in this country surprises the English who have hardly
thought Mr. Eastlakes Hints Household Taste worth
much notice. though here. account Of its novelty II
has had great sale Something OF the success Of the
book may be owing to notion having got abroad that it
is written by Sir Charles Lock Eastake whereas it is the
work Of his nephew young and htte-known architect
in London But IL Is probable its success here has
been owing 10 the hope 1t seemed To hold forth that here
at last might be TO the want so widely felt
Of pretty furniture at moderate prices.


Mr.. Eastlakcs solution Of this problem was TO make
things cheap by making them coarse, and too often
ugly We never saw OF his designs carried into exc
cuton but that not necessary the designs were sf
fcient In Themselves The Household Art Company s
following too closely in the path marked out by Easake
and relies too much on mere effect dsegarding elegance
Of line and finish IN execution. Furniture Tor our
small houses must DO neatly well as strongly
made. and elegance Of form ought to he
principal requisite. Chcapness can only be obtained
by abandoning oil attempt at carving and
applied and relying entirely upou purity
Of line and excellence Of proportion The present col
lection contains many useful pieces but fewer than
usual Of those pretty Old bits Of American and English
furniture Of the beginning d the century which made
its first sale in this city notable Among the large
pieces No I53 good specimen In spite of its swell
ing title there also chairs In stamped leather
that shoud not be passed over and Small Cabinet,
Decorated bv Lady" k really charming piece though
the Decoration 10 worthy . 10 och better dSsiga