THE ETUDE MARCH 1920 Page U5 CHIPPENDALE (1709-1779) The French-Gothic lines of the posts, and the French-Gothic grille with its Chinese card-cut frieze combine to give an effect of stately beauty. ^H E subtle magic that changes a house into a home where you love to dwell is found largely in two arts, music and furniture. When you choose your phonograph, choose it for what it can give you of both. A phonograph's value as a musical instrument can be measured only by its realism. Thomas A. Edison spent three million dollars in research work to develop a phonograph so realistic that its re-production of an artist's singing or playing cannot be detected from the original, when heard in direct comparison. The result is nisQfli rj^^aaaa a w m . naaaQg^^goiQg g "The Phonograph with a Soul" IT literally "RE-CREATES " music, and the United States Government has given Mr. Edison the exclusive right to use the word "RE-CREATION" in connection with the reproduc-tion of all forms of music. The absolute realism of this new phonograph has been estab-lished by tests with fifty different artists before three million peo-ple, who were unable to detect a difference between any artist's voice or instrumental perform-ance and the New Edison's RE -CREATION of it. These re-markable tests have been reported in more than five hundred of America's leading newspapers. If you love music, you probably appreciate good furniture. The New Edison not only gives you the literal RE-CREATION of an artist's voice or instrumental per-formance, but it also adds to your home an exquisite piece of period furniture. The entire wealth of furniture's Golden Age is yours to choose from. You can have a New Edison Cabinet which expresses the dig-nity of England's best periods, or the elegance of France in its most luxurious days, or the es-thetic beauty of Italy's inspired furniture art. Edison's designers went to the original sources of every representative period and chose its finest examples. They established seventeen different designs in all. Whichever Cabinet you select, your choice will have the en-dorsement of Miss Elsie de Wolfe and Lady Randolph Churchill. In the minds of these two women, considered the greatest furniture authorities in the world, the New Edison stands supreme. The New Edison gives all that is in music and all that is in fur-niture art. m^m \ Elsie de Wolfe \ who designs and furnishes the interiors of the finest homes in America, says: "HHH E period cabinets which 1 Mr. Edison has adopted for his phonographs are in pleas-ant contrast to the rather grotesque cases one so fre-quently sees. From the dim-inutive Heppelwhite to the costly replicas of historic pieces, the superior furniture value of Edison cabinets can scarcely fail to impress the lover of good furniture." Lady ^ Randolph Churchill who is considered the greatest furni-ture authority in England, says: HIS (Edison's) designers have succeeded in putting the char-acter and feeling of the best periods into his phonograph cases. These graceful and artistic productions will be received in many homes where less worthy machines have not been wel-come heretofore." XVIII CENTURY ENGLISH (ADAM) (1728-1794) The work of the Adam Brothers is noteworthy for simplicity, elegant slendemess, fine proportion. WILLIAM AND MARY (1689-1702) The legs, stretcher, pendent pull9 and grille are typical of the taste and del-icacy of this period. Write today for your copy of "Edison and Music99 ON E of Thomas A . Edison's right-hand men has written a book about Edison. The book paints a fascinating word picture of Mr Edison. It also con-tains 17 exquisite plates and invaluable information about Historic Furniture. Wehave issued a special paper-coh-ered edition for free distri-bution. Address Thomas A. Edison, Inc., Orange, N. J. JACOBEAN (1603-1649) This cabinet reflects the Jacobean ten-dency to simple, classic design.
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