The Decoration of Houses Audiobook by Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr.

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/52/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Decoration of Houses Author: Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr. Narrator: Grace Conlin Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 08-31-12 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Classics, Nonfiction Publisher's Summary: One of the classic works on interior decoration, Edith Whartons 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. Critic Reviews: The practical advice, with its emphasis on simplicity, still has a wide application. A book with enduring appeal. (Kirkus Reviews) Wharton and Codman took a reformist stance, suggesting that clients stop treating the interiors and the exteriors of their houses as separate projects and start seeking more simplicity and less ornament. Wharton had an opportunity to play architect and decorator herself in Lenox, Massachusetts, where (with the help of professionals) she built the Mount, a Georgian mansion with a cascade of beautiful gardens. She wrote to her sometime lover Morton Fullerton, Decidedly, Im a better landscape gardener than novelist, and this place, every line of which is my own work, far surpasses The House of Mirth. (The New Yorker)