Excerpt from Chips: From the Workshop of Gustave Stickley, Syracuse, N. Y., U. S. A The furnisher of the per feet bed-room respects the advice to Phaeton, when he assumed control of the Chariot of the Sun: Thou shalt go safest in the middle course. He avoids anything suggestive of bareness and coldness. He gives to every thing the air of being fitted to its place and of intending permanently to hold that place. And when his task is finished, the room occu pies a position midway between the sleeping room of the antique world and that meeting place of the products of many a es and countries which the modern so-ca ed bed room often becomes under the hand of the decorator. The Greeks and Romans literally took up their beds and walked, from a closet on the north side of their dwellings to another closet on the south side, whenever the winds from the mountains warned them of the a roach of winter. From these closets they e' ted all superfluous and many (in our opinion) necessary articles. We may imagine that the Greeks admitted a press for plaiting their gowns and mantles, and a few vases which served them for bureaux, chests of drawers, and boxes; but neither they nor the Romans had the faintest conception of either comfort or home-life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.