The Norfolk weekly news. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1888-1900, 1899-10-26
STYLE IN FURNISHING.
old English Ideas Rcd the Great
color, aud velvet In Vogue.

Red, running through the gamut of
It's rich dyes, from Morris scarlet to
the deepest mulberry, is the fnvoritc
color In house decoration this season.
The steadily increasing popularity OF
mahogany In simple colonial forms has
brought this color into fashion, and
after long dallianCC with French. styles
and II |momcutary fancy for delft blues,
Il lavish use of gliding and white paint
the whole inclination of interior orna-
mcntation Is toward the older, darker
aud srvrrcr English modes. Nothing Is
more fashionable, for instance, than "A
library, a hall or even an entire first
floor wholly decorated and furnished
after the best Jacobcnn models left In
England, ireland ana Scotland, and II
Is like nothing seen before In Ameri-
can homes.
The effect of the Jncobcan room IL,
IN spite of It's absence of mirrors, gilt
and loose bric-a brac, wonderfully
rich, stately and cozy, and In those
lhbllStH Il'l' NV ~
could be INDUCED, the decorators have
pursued the King James style with
wonderful rhcapncss and success.
They copy the quaint furniture forms
In carved black American walnut or
use an oak to which art has given the
worn, dusky ton of great age. Burlap
Is laid on walls and painted murrcy
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or door facings, etc. painted black.
Where in any room this early sixteenth
century idea of decoration Is followed
the bric-n-b rnc is carefully boarded up
In opcn frontcd cupbonrds or shallow
presses with half glass doors, and the
very newest idea In dining rooms Is IA
great plate sidcboard.
when II dinner party is given now
ndays, 1t Is In order for the hostess to
put on view all her beautiful plate,
gold and silver, not so much for ac-
tunl table use rs for display II the
o|rnamcntation Of her dining room.
For this purpose Jacobcan plate boys,
In black carved oak, with shelves ris-
Ing nearly to the ceiling, are being
especially built and SO placed In
handsome dining rooms that the light
from many branchcd
brum can fall effectively on tiers
of silver. Other plate boys are built
of my simple wood and then entirely
covered in ruby red velvet, against
which the plate shows as effectively
and certainly ut much less expense
finn an thn lnfty pnk shelves
Sang de bocuf, or bulls blood red, Is
the approved tint in which the draw
ing rooms are being done over, and the
decorators say that 1t Is the most be-
coming background possible for wom-
en- of all colorings, and especially when
they are in evening dress. 1t appears
that in dra wing DON decoration, as IN
the feminine wardrobe, fabrics go in
and out of fashion about every five
years, and now, after the brocadcs and
damnsks Of the French influence, vel
vet has come to its own again. 1t Is
used rs n wall hanging, for portieres
and curtains, not drapcd, but hanging
straight, arras fashion.
Venetian, Utrecht and Flanders vel
vets are the kinds employed for hang
ings and upholstery, and just now, no
matter if your hall Is colonial, your
library Jacobcnn and your dining room
of another period, your drawing room
must not be in any particular cut I'M
dried fashion. One of its most impor-
tant features is its chairs, that can be
chosen from every period in history If
you choose. provided they are all
graceful and ornamental, says the New
| York sun. which is authority for these
items of style in furniture.