The Arizona sentinel., 1885-05-02
Some New York Interiors.

ously artistic interiors in New York was
 that of the house of pr. W. A. Ham
 mond in West Fifty-fourth street. After
 giving his walls time to settle, he began
 a series of internal decorations, which
 it will be difficult for artists to surpass
 for some time to come. His dining
 room is hung with frieze copied from
 the Bayeux tapestry-patient Matilda's
 chronicle of the stirring times of Will
 liam of Normandy. The ceiling is
 painted in the early Saxon ornamenta-
 tion-ribbon winding through con- ventionalized pattern. The room is decorated with the choicest specimens of porcelain and china, and the win dows areof stained glass. The portieres are of Algerian stuffs, heavy and hand some.
 The dining-room is 8 large room, thirty-six by sixteen feet; the walls are hung with deep crimson maroon leather stamped in gold, with figures of chim- erical animals of medi@val design; the ceiling, Renaissance of the fifteenth century Opening out of this room is an Egyptian retreat, with the lotus, the
 scarabeus, and the procession of slaves, huntsmen, and animals Gin the strange
 but expressive drawing with which Brugsch's book has made us familiar). It would be in vain to describe the hawk-headed goddess, the dog-faced deities of Egypt, the inscrutable eye of the high-priest as he presides over the fireplace. This room is devoted to consultations on themysterious diseases of the brain, and is ftly dedicated to that Egyptian intellect which saw so clearly behind the veil, and read as nc other people have read the enigma of life. The house of Edward N. Dicker- son, but lately finished, is one of the triumphs of both new and admirable system of ventilation, and of internal decoration of high order. The stair case reaches up through four stories, is of solid unvarnished mahogany, with panelling of the same st the side. This is superb feature of the modern house. The frequent landings, the broad low stairs, all are improvements on the old-fashioned narrow, ugly stair way of the immediate past. MT. Dick erson has much beautiful stained glass l; his drawing-room windows are made to repeat the delicate scarlet and dove. color of the paper and window curtains, while in bedroom swallows fly through apple-blossoms, and are in more inn perishable form represented in the glass window.
 Here also we see that nothing is more effective than stamped leather for din ing-room walls, and carved buffets with painting on leather, let in after the fashion of tiles, ably supplement this finish. MT. Dickerson has a famous window in his dining-room, which is outlined by fine bit of Japanese carv- ing. This piece has given the keynote to the room, which has also ceiling of painted plaques, very harmonious, curi- ous, and ornamental. Brass sconces of and Henri Eout add much brilliancy to these dafk1y ornamented rooms. A boudoir in ebonized cherry, with tile fireplace, the tiles painted with bright flowers, and much ornament al brass-work about, is extremely pret- ty, as is the whole of this artistic dwell ing.
 In some of the fine interiors we see deep crimson hangings and carpets, with dead gold and bronze paper, chandeliers of silver and brass. and fire place of furnished steel. This intro duction of steel is one of the most beau tiful of the modern improvements.
 In others we see, as we enter, Alger- inc striped portieres and rugs of Persia or Turkey, the furniture made in forms suggestive of lounging, and covered with Eastern stuffs. The sideboard has a severe simplicity, however. The lines are straight and formal, the out line definite. No shallow curves, no feeble-minded ornamentation. Per- haps shells cut out of hard wood, with some good brass-work to use for han dles, key, and hinges. The richest bro caded Chinese silks, with the heavily carved lockwood furniture ot on Oriental brethren, fitly furnish forth the rooms where the pottery is collected. The Moorish vases, the Egyptian water bottles, Japanese cups, Thuringian DOT celain, crackle-ware, cloisonne, Spanish faience, Palissy, Etruscan, Kioto, Dres- den, Russian, biscuit, Nankin, maiolica, and Hungarian porcelain can not be better lodged than in the Chinese room. It is fitting tribute to China, which has given its name to every species of pottery. It is, however, now a reigning fancy to have rare plaques hung on the walls of every room.-M. B. w. SHERWOOD, in Haaper's Maga- zine.