The Art of Furnishing and Deco

Frank Alvah Parsons, President of the New York School of Fine and
Applied Art, is a leading American authority on interior decoration. He long
since has amply demonstrated his wonderful faculty for turning his
knowledge to the common good. We know of no man who, with voice and
pen, has fought harder or more unceasingly for better taste, for richer, fuller
home life.
Mr. Parsons hardly can seem a stranger to the average reader of this book.
Indeed, through his writings and lectures, he has become guide and
counsellor and the personal friend of thousands of refined men and women,
who have accepted the idea so well developed by Mr. Parsons in the
following pages, that “Man is what he lives in;” that, generally speaking, man
can be no greater or no less than the daily environment in which he works,
thinks, and lives.
We take great satisfaction and pleasure in announcing Mr. Parsons as the
author of that section of this book which is entitled “The Art of Home
Furnishing and Decoration.” It is written in Mr. Parson’s typically intimate
and forceful style, and every paragraph is replete with information and
suggestions of great value. We are sure that this book will hold your interest
from the first to the last word, and that in the end you will look on the
possibilities of your home and your life within it in a fresh and considerably
enlarged perspective.
After you have spent an hour with Mr. Parsons on the general theme of
home furnishing and decoration, we believe that it will profit you to read
what is written by ourselves in the latter part of the book on the specific
subject of linoleum and its relation to the principles that Mr. Parsons has laid
down.