The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-17
NEW STYLES IN FURNITURE.
RED THE GREAT COLOR AND JACOBEAN
IDEAS USED.
Effects in n New Library of Black Woou
with Red Finishings-PIate Boys Used
to Display Ones Surplus Silver-Novei
Chnira fnr tho RerentiOn SnlOn.

Effects in a New Library of Black WOOD
with Red Finishings-PIate Boys used
to Display Ones Surplus silver-Novei
Chairs for tho Reception SALON.
Red. running through the gamut OF It's rich
dyes from Morris scarlet 10 the deepest mulberry,
is the fayorite color in house decoration this sea
son. The steadily increasing popularity Of ma
hogany in simple colonial forms has brought
this color into fashion. and after long daliance
with French styles and a momentary fancy for
delft blues a lavish use Of gliding and white
paint the whole inclination Of interior oTna
mentation is toward the older, darker and scverer
English modes Nothing Is more fashionable
for instance, than library, a hall, or even an
entire first floor wholly decorated and furnished
after the best Jacobean models left In England,
Ireland and Scotland and one OF the charms
of King James room is that II can be done AZ as
lavish or moderate cost as you please, and II Is
like nothing seen before in American homes
In ono Now York house, only recently com
pleted, there is a small Jacobean library that
would be faultless model for any one desiring
a similar room 10 copy The walls arc hung
in murrey colorcd leather. and the woodwork
In carved cedar; the floor is stained black then
waxed, highly polished. and OH 1t are laid red
rugs All the furniture and this motif in decoration
come from an ancient manor house on the border
between England and Scotland Carved fumed
oak, so called from being BACKED by age and
tho smoke from slow peat fires, forms the presses
that hold the books, and tho wooden portion OF
the quaint, uncomfortable, longlegged, low
backed conversation chairs the window stools
and the setteea Murrey colored leather uphol-
sters tbese and in corners against the walls there
are carved locked CHESTS for holding valued manu-
scripts and family papers, and one long tapestry
curtain hangs at each deeply recessed window
The effect Of tho Jacobean room is, in spite
NJ Ito ebsence nj mirrors Gilt and loose brio A.
brac unnderfullv rich stately and COSY and in
those houses where no such liberal expenditure
could he indu,ped the decorators have pursued
the King James STYLE with wonderful cheapness
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 tone
Of great arc Burlaps Is laid ON walls and painted
murrev red and walnut IL used for woodwork,
or door fscinRs etc psinted black Where in
any room this early sixteenth century idea Of
decoration liz followed the brio a. brac Is care
fully boarded I'D in open fronted cupboards or
shallow presses with half glass doors, and the
very newest idea in dining rooms il great plate
sidcboard.
When a dinner party Is given nowadays II is
In order for the hostess TO nut on view all her beau
tiful plate gold and YER not so much for actual
table use as for display and the ornamcntation
Of her dining room Now the ordinary long, low
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own splendid silver services and whose husbands
have won with their yachts and received from
corporations beautiful gifts of plate REQUIRE special
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TO the ceiling, arc being especially built and so
nj aced in handsome dining rooms that the lipht