Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-05
FURNITURE In SUMMER
AN EXAMPLE OF HOW 10 MAKE
COVERS PRETTY.
Care Of Pretty Things In Hot Weather
Very Expensive-De-
Egners Busy.
From the New Yort Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The drawing room need not lose its
beauty because summer has brought out
the furniture covers In one New York
house the drawing room has all It's antique
furniture covered with white and yellow
striped cretonne. with the yellow shade
matching the walls and ceiling. The pic
lures are covered with gauze OF the same
yellow tone. The effect In both cool and
pleasing.
The large dining room back of the sit
ting room has its eight high leather chairs
covered with the same cretonne. and the
table Is draped with a cretonne cover. The
few pieces OF metal ornament are covered
with the tawny gauze. Only the blue and
white porcelains that stand about the room
are unprotected.
The sash curtains are down. and only the
blinds protect the windows. The only
drapery Is at the doors. Here the curtains
are OF loose mashed cotton OF the same
tone as the yellow walls and the eretonne.
The arrival Of summer In New York i'm
presses on the housekeeper the fact that 1t
Is almost as expensive to keep fine things
as 1t Is to buy them.
Valuable rugs cannot be left on the floor
Some women put them in charge Of Turk
tsh dealers. who repair them and store
them during the summer and preserve
them from moths. This precaution costs
Fur rugs have to be even more carefully
treated.
No owner of solid silver keeps it in her
home during the summer without great
apprehension. The cost of storing Ii de-
Ponds largely upon the safe deposit vaults
Or the jeweler selected, but is high In any
event.
The curtains must be cleaned before they
are ready for winter again. The ex-
pense of that also goes toward making
the New Yorker realize that 1t costs to
have things as well as to buy them.
Mahogany Wainscoting.
One OF the most effective details Of dec
Grafton in New Jersey house Is the wains-
cotlng OF old mahogany that runs about
the walls of the dining room. This Is also
the special pride of the owner, for 1t was
OF her own designing
The mahogany, old and beautifully col
ored. came from an old house on I'd avenue
s Wnere II mad formed the inner window
snuttefs. The shutters are placed In panels
ABOUT the room and could not look more
suited to the place IL they had been there
Tor century
attractive in a similar way Is a narrow
hall In q town house paneled entiraIv In
shutters also taken from an old house
1Hey are not mahogany. however and had
" pe panied dull gray to suit the owner
both KINDS OF shutters were made OF
course, before Stats came in, and are simply
molding. A
Does anybody still hang picturea at an
angie TO the wall? Has 1t not been Inn
pressed on everybody that a picture to
snow 10 the best advantage should hang
nat against the wall?
1t was not SO long ago that eyerv nictura
dipped at an angle, maybe of 30 degrees
The grouping of pictures was. of course
impossible when this practice was followed
because no two could ever be made to hang
fat ''1e
The tendency to put as little furniture
as possible into rooms has had its effect on
center OF each wall Broad ribbon-llke
hangings are frequently used instead OF
W1reS-at least the wires are hidden by
these ribbons, which fall from a rosette at
the ceiling. Sometimes a very heavy SILK
cord conceals the wire and the cord is
tied in fiat bow at the ceiling line
Small pictures are hardest to arrange in
accordance with present styles The best
treatment Of them is to make mass efrect
by hanging them all together.
Originality Demanded.
Designers Of furniture are very busy
1t might seem very simple for a furniture
maker to copy any of the fine chairs dis
played in the museums as examples OF the
work Of the great English furniture makers
and designers. but the manufacturers are
rarely content with that simple process
nowadays. They demand some note OF
originality in the design.
I'VE don't merely reproduce Sheraton.
Heppelwhite and the rest of them.'' sales
, man told Sun reporter. I'VE adapt them
to present day needs. We add something
here and novelty there. and. In our opin-
ion. produce piece of furniture much
more artistic and more adapted to present
use"
He seemed proud of his ability to i'm
prove on Heppelwhite and the rest of them.
Some of the designers know better. They
also know ON what side their bread is
buttered.
II know perfectly WELL" said woman
who has been very successful in furniture
designing, that we could never improve
on the old models They are the despair
of all modern workers. But dealers with
few exceptions, want to have their own
designs and something they call an exclu-
sive pattern. So, merely for that reason,
and to sell our design for a good price,
we complacently try to improve on the