ABSTRACT
Charles Henry Bourne Quennell was an English architect, designer, illustrator and historian. He was articled to Newman and Newman, and worked in the offices of John McKean Brydon and of J. D. Sedding and Henry Wilson. He won the National Gold Medal for Architecture, and the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Medal of Merit. The particular significance of people’s desire to beautify their houses with architectural furniture is that it is evidence of a certain belief in their own judgment; that it shows in them the coming again of that home-making instinct which has been supposed to be peculiarly British. To consider seriously the furnishing of house and home on the basis of the knowledge that the furniture so acquired would have to be lived with for the rest of one’s life made the experiment as hazardous as matrimony.
