Page 5 NOV EMBER 1920 THE ETUDE The Elizabethan Cabinet adapted by Mr. Edison golden age of furniture 7HE search led back across the Atlantic, into the manor-houses of England, the chateaux of France, and the castles of Italy. Here they came to light — the aristocrats of furniture — the true originals of the period-furniture styles. And Mr. Edison's designers adapted seventeen of these masterpieces for the modern American home. * * * PERIO D FURNITUR E is a heritage of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. The Georges reigned in England, and the Louis ruled in France. Fine living was the ideal of the day. Men of artistic genius were lionized by fair ladies, and made wealthy through the lavish patronage of kings. The arts prospered like flowers under June's smiling sun. Architects conjured up monumental palaces. Landscape artists set them in fairy grounds. Painters illumined their walls with imperishable canvases. Unparalleled designers and f craftsmen furnished their interiors. This era of luxury produced Chippen- J dale, Sheraton, and other masters of the English, French and Italian schools. It brought the cabinet-maker's art to its most exquisite development. It was aptly named "TH E GOLDE N AG E OF FURNITURE. " Two CENTURIES later carre a momen- f tous development in music. : Y > DISON , the thinker, conceived ^ the vision of an America, whose every home would be blessed with great music — through a phonograph of SUPREME REALISM . Edison, the in-ventor, gave three millions of his money and seven years of his time to an ex-haustive research — out of which the New Edison was finally evolved. Then commenced those startling tests ; by which he proved, through direct comparison, that the New Edison RE-CREATES an artist's performance exactly as the artist himself gives it. More than 4,000 such tests were given, with over fifty vocalists and instrumentalists. More than four million people heard them. N o one was able to tell the living perform-ance from its RE-CREATIO N by the New Edison. 7HE FAMIL Y that has an ear for the finer things in music is the fam-ily that has an eye for the finer things in furniture. Mr. Edison decided that Edison Cabinets should be patterned after the most exquisite furniture known. And so the search led back across the Atlantic, into the manor - houses of England, the chateaux of France, and the castles of Italy. Mr. Edison's de-signers made every Edison Cabinet a period cabinet out of the Golden Age of Furniture. THOMA S A . EDISON , INC. , Orange, N.J . ^ e NE W E DISO N ihep^°»°raph™iiha
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