Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-06-20
MRS. ARMouR,s $4,000 ORDER.
It Was For Japanese Furnishings For the
Smoking Room.

smoking
The placing Of an order for Mrs. Og'
den Armour OF Chicago with q san
Francisco firm for $4,000 worth OF
Japanese art work ard carving has
brought to light the fact that when the
artists shall have finished their work III
her new residence there viii be one room
therein absolutely without a peer i'll
point of treatment i'll this or any Other
country. This particular room Will be
the smoking room.
Two celebrated artists have collabo-
rated in the work. one furnishing the
general design for tho treatment of The
room, the other working out the detail
and decorations.
1t will be some time before the deco
rators can actually get TO work putting
the material i'll place, for much of 1t Is
to be specially imported. The furniture
is all to be carved III Japan and China
from special models, and the tapestries
and upholstery are all to be specially
made.
The room will be done i'll q prevail
ing tone-that is, delicate division
between old rose and old copper. The
floor will be i'll parqueterie, with pro-
fusion of specially woven Japanese rugs
and mats.
The wall covering will be Of silk
brocade, the ground color of which, the
old copper spoken of, will give the pre-
vailing tone to the color scheme of the
whole. In the weaving of this brocade
a great deal Of gold thread will be used,
not merely TO give lines and suggestions
of color, but III masses of rich amboss-
ing.
The mural decorations are to be 1are
Kakimonos, in colors harmoniz;ng with
the tone of the room, but each one TO be
worthy example of the best japanese
pictorial art, both III subject and treat
ment. Some of these Will be hung like
tapestries, while Others will be framed
with the general effect sought. Some OF
the Kakimonos already selected are the
work of the most famous old masters OF
Japan.
The furniture is all to be of ebony III
laid with mother OF pearl. The carving
is all to be done III the orient by native
artists, and the designs show Il wealth
and richness of carving seldom seen
outside the palaces and temples of Japan.
The cabinets will abound in lacquer.
They will be marvels Of japanese in
genuity in sliding panels, hidden doors
Tho
lacquer will be the expensive and high
~ priced gold lacquer, in sharp but rest
ful contrast with the carved black
ebony.
The smoking outfits will be III silver
and bronze, in grotcsque forms. They
will contain. after the japanese manner,
little receptacles TO hold lighted char
coal and others to contain the paper
tapers by which fire is transferred from
the charcoal to the pipe or cigar. There
will be unexpected compartments for
the various kinds OF tobacco, with ash
trays thaparc the despair OF the workers
in hammered metals.
There will, of coarse, be japanese
screens and vases and jardiniercs in
cloisonne and other varieties CT Japanese
pottery.
Such another smoking room probably
cannot be foprd il Christondom or out
of ii. And with the rapidly with which
foreign goods and custom are coming into
service III Japan it probably will not be
long before there cannot be found, even
il Japan, spch thoroughly Japanese
apartment as the smoking room Of Mrs.
Ogden Armour's house.-Chicago Trib-
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