The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-16
NEW FIREPLACEs.
Flemish Decoration in IngIe Nook
and settle, with JacObean Tapes


tries.
The very heart of every beautiful and
newly decorated room is the fireplace so
says the man who deals in mantle shelves
CRATES and fire dogs aud he ought TO
know. for never before has he done bigger
business than this autumn. Houses that
are being built or are in process of redec-
grafton are all having their chimney places
rented. and the demand of the house
holder is for a Fireplace where wood or
coal, not electric embers or gas logs, can
be made to burn.
A half dozen years ago. when rich
Americans were enthusiastic over tfench
fashions. the demand was almost eNclu-
sively for CRATES and fire-places that were
oopied from French palaces and chateauN;
now. however, a strong reaction mas set
in in favor of the English mode, ana you
cannot achieve anything more admIaoie
fn house decoration than to nave your
chimpey-piece copied from Hampton Court
Haddon Hail or Dalkeith Caste ana VI
his North Carolina home Mr.. George van
derbiit Is credited with having been the
first person 10 recognize The superiority OF
the English method in building hre-piaces'
The chimney piece and httlnss IN the IL
brarv of Biitmore are patterned, in many
..
old Scotch castle and the dogs that up
hold the giant logs in this stately room
stand nearly five feet high. They were ue-
signed and cast in bronze IN TINS country
hut every American cannot AFFORD elther
che trouble or the expense of burning sea-
xoned Joys and in all the newly done-over
city houses the crate is siill the thln9.
Around the hub. dog, or basket CRATE Is
shen built a mantle, or ar ing1e-nook or
the CRATE is made TO simulate the open
mouth of a giant Dutch stove.
Either Coat of Arms or Totem.
The ingle nook or settle was originally
an English invention, but the present
taste is for a deal of Flemish decoration
and the interior architect confines TINS
comfortable species of freside to halls or
libraries Carried out according to the
best authority, II must be done IN ma
hogany and consist of low benched tres
tle seat against a paneled dado, ana above
that small panied windows each sectloh
of which should have one square OF color
ed glass. This glass prettly displays either
she initials or coat-of-arms OF the owner
of the house or sometimes, with more orig
Inality, a chosen totem.
If the ingle-nook is used as a sort OF
lounging and smoking corner for the head
of the house, the colored central glasses
show fanciful calumets magnificent meer-
shaums and briar woods crossed In the
solfing district grouped clubs and Scotch
fhistles are seen, and the complete ingie
nook has shelves for sporting books, lock-
ers under the seat for cordial and brandy
bottles. a cupboard for cigars and cigar
cites. and smoking table The trestle
seat is upholstered in tapestry OF JacoDean
design showing the pleasures OF the chase
as pursued in the day of learned King
James, and similar tapestry is hung in the
open frame work that encloses the ingle
nook.
Dutch tiles form the actual surround,
while a large old-style serving basket oil
black iron holds the Goals over a step 81
rich red Welsh bricks. Grey-stone, lett
plain hewn, supplies the jambs and man
tel-piece, and over the suspended basket
iuts out a hood of red tiles to match the
brick hearth.
Jack and finder Cnp.
Now this is the ingle-nook as it is seen
to-day in old Lancashire and Westmore-
land houses, whence they are copied ex-
actly, even to the wooden Jack in the cor
ner, used a hundred years ago for pull
ing off the masters jack boots, when he
came down after a day with the hounds.
The jack is practically utilized as foot
stool just as the finder cup sitting on
1utting brick by the CRATE, receives now
adays the ashes of the cigar-smoking
Americans.
Quite as fashionable a mantel-piece as
a
house is a New England chimney cor
ner copied from any of the old seven
tenth century frame houses about Ply
mouth, Newport or Boston They have
been introduced this year in many houses
where the square hall is used as a living
room and where tea is served in the after
noon. The whole face of the chimney ana
the lining thereof is done with red brick,
carefully antiqued to get the proper age
color The bricks are burnt, then buried
and finally when the fireplace is built,
wood file is used to wear away their edges,
On stimulation of the gnawing tooth OF
time and usage. quite as often the whole
fireplace is done in roughly set field stones,
and the wooden mantel is carved with the
fat rosettes and neat corrugations so dear
40 the colonial heart.
Those who can afford and prefer to burn
wood i'm their New England freplaces use
the small brass fire dogs and treasure
their ashes but in city houses wrought
iron dog CRATES are preferred for holding
q palpitating bed of Welsh coal, and cups
aud crumpets are kept hot in the oven
that opens in one side of the bricked wall
Some Splendid Specimens.
After the long reign of Louis Quatorz,
Quinz and Seize periods of treplaces for
drawing rooms the fashion is now for the
beautiful and elaborate Adam CRATES and
lenders of exquis!tely engraved and
pierced brass. One and all these are made
with outstanding fre-dog pedestals in
front, while the bars of the CRATE itself
are of steel polished like cambria needle.
So elaborate is the work on some of these
Adam CRATES with dogs, that their cost
mounts up in the thousands. Such CRATES
have frames of carved Algerian onyx
which is much more jewel like in beauty
than the Mexican onyx and far rarer
Fleur de Percher marble, which comes
from France, and is most exquisitely in
laid is another material used in newly
decorated drawing rooms and boudoirs.
Fleur de Pecher is a rose tinted marble,
decorated with other marbles and with
inlay of metals; but the top notch Of eN-
travagance in ornamental NANTES has
been reached in one New York house
where the duh brown stone of the firepiac.
jamb and mantle shelf is fun OF preciou
Persian turquoise, just as it appears IT,
the mother rock.
As there is an accepted fashion in draw
ing room library and hail mantle-pieces,
so does the new law of house decoration