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The “Empress of France” (Canadian Pacific)
An architecture pure, neat, clear, clean and healthy. Contrast with this our carpets, cushions, canopies, wall-papers, carved and gilt furniture, faded or “arty” colours: the dismalness of our Western bazaar.
everything, which merely works to the advantage of the theories and campaigns conducted by “decorators” who do not understand their own period.
Art is an austere thing which has its sacred moments. We profane them. A frivolous art leers upon a world which has need rather of organisation, of implements and of methods and which is pushing forward in travail towards the establishment of a new order. A society lives primarily by bread, by the sun and by its essential comforts. Everything remains to be done! Immense task! And it is so imperative, so urgent
