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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ons. THE COLOR APPEALopMARBLE E.C. rter NGRAINED in the human race is adefinite love for color; for the rich, har-monious effects that may be attained withcombinations of shades intended to satisfytastes and culture of people in variousstates of society. Periods of joyous colorhave alternated with periods of more or lesscoldness and severity of decoration. Evenwithin our own history these color cyclesas applied to architecture particularly, haveshown very marked changes. The purewhites and neutral tints of colonial timesgradually gave way to the richer effects ofthe Victorian style. Again the tide ran outin favor of coolershades and for thepast two or threedecades brighttreatments havebeen kept in abey-ance. But our archi-tectural complex-ion is again under-going a markedtransformati(3n;o n e w h i c h dis-cards the once fa-miliar dull,weather - beatencountenance forthe well-groomed,attractiveness o fskillfully appliedcolor. The idea 11 - --• --.■-.■ S-^ -»- ;.x. ^aSw wp..^ 1 i
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*The author is Eacinc CoastManager, Vermont Marble Com-pany, San Franciscn. MONUMENT TO MUSIC, PROVIDENCE, R. I. of beauty in all things is becoming apowerful factor in determining the futureprogress of this increasingly mechanicalera. Stimulated by new discoveries andaided by scientific research, this quest forbeauty gives every promise of exceedinganvthing yet known in history. New build-ings find it expedient to dress in gayer attireor be hopelessly neglected as architecturalwall flowers, so to speak. Always the builder has found much sat-isfaction in working with marble. The ef-fects gained by its use are practically unlim-ited, so wide is the gamut of colors on themarket fromwhich he maychoose. It is inter-e s t i n g to reflectthat even in t h etime of Ruskin therange of tintedmarbles offeredgreat possibilitiesto the color stylist,although such va-rieties do not ap-pear to have beenutilized to anygreat extent, asthis author fre-quently deplores.One of his pas-sages illuminatesth

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