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Title: Home suggestions.
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Associated Tile Manufacturers (Beaver Falls, Pa.)
Subjects: Tiles--Catalogs Tiles in interior decoration Trade catalogs--Tiles
Publisher: Associated Tile Manufacturers, Beaver Falls, Pa.
Contributing Library: Winterthur Museum Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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n maketiles eminently appropriate in the receptionhall. Here is more or less eager scrutinizingto be withstood, and here are to be given earlyimpressions of the house interior. The tiled hallstands the closest scrutiny and gives the im-pression of sterling excellence, and of adequacy. It is because of its attractiveness that tile-work is so highly favored, and tiling in thereception hall proclaims appreciation of beautyand fitness. The tiled floor here testifies to goodtaste, and to a sense of relative values prompt-ing the choice of a material at once dignifiedand pleasing, and durable and serviceable. The tiled reception hall knows no superior;its traditions and history give to it the securityof place. There are of course many questions asto the hall of the new house, and a wide choiceof tile treatments is available, but the decisionto use tiles is fundamentally and architecturallyright. The tiled hall has the approval ofprecedent and of having given long andcontinuous satisfaction.
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The ASSOCIATED TILE MANUFACTURERS Tiling helps to produce that interestand impression of spaciousness andsubstantiality which the character ofthe reception hall calls for. The Tiled Living Room In the living room tiles attain to their mostaesthetic uses. Here they are decorative in anexquisite sense; they beautify the room and giveto it a pleasant atmosphere. Tile trim and tiled floor contribute to thisdesired effect. Tiles afford trim in practicallyany size and color or combination of colors tosuit the owners wish, and not only does thistrim carry a style of its own, definite, char-acteristic, and pleasing, but it blends with thefurnishings. The tiled floor fits into any decorative ar-rangement of the room. It consists naturally oftiles of a solid color, or of a pleasing combina-tion of the more tempered hues. Attractiveness is the foremost quality oftiles. Wherever used, they show beauty in ameasurable degree, beauty and appropriatenessthat harmonize happily; in some cases, accord-i

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