The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24

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furniture cuvsred with white aed Seltsw
striped e]frtonn~, With The yeIlow shastS
matching thu walls and criIHs. Ths PIE
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yeilow q The rFect h both oost 80
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The large dlaIns room hack n ~ ~
ting room has Ne sight high leather ehnlf9
table II draIed With q cfetonne ccvef. Ihe
few p,erea ~ fnstAl ornament ate e0Vsfed
with The tawny gause. Only she .bhie aqt
whle pofcslalns ih9t stand abous the
The sash curtains are down and only the
blinds pLptact the windOwp, The only
drapery " o. tho doors. Hero me curtains
arr " Ioope mrnhad cotton ~ the Rame q
az the yellow wallH and tho crctonne.
The arrival NJ summer In New York I'm
presses on the houaekeepcr the fact that 10 10
almost "a expensive 10 keep iins things 80
~ In to buy them.
Valuable rigH cannot be left Oh the floor.
Some women put them in ch9rRe Of Turk
ish dealers. who repair them aud store them
during the summer and preserve them from
moths. This precaution costs from s2S
TO $500.
Fur rugs have to he even more carefully
treated.
No owner Of solid silver keeps IL In her
home during the summer without great
apprehension. The cost Of storing 1t de-
Ponds largely upon the safe deposit vaults
or the jeweller selected, but ia high in any
event.
The curtains must be cleaned before
they are ready for winter Tee again. The
expense Of that also goes toward making
the New Yorker realize that IL costs to have
things as well as to buy them.
One Of the most effective details Of decora.
ton in a New Jersey house is the wainsooting
Of old mahogany that runs about the walls
Of the dining room, This is also the special
pride Of the owner, for II ives Of her
designing. $50
The mahogany, old and beautifully col
ored, came from an old house on Second aver
nue., where it had formed the inner window =
shutters. The shutters are placed in panels,
about the room and could not look moro
suited to the place If they had been there
for q century.
Attractive in a similar way is a narrow
hall in a town house r~anelled entirely in
shutters also taken from an old house.
They, are not mahogany, however. and
a. W 10 pdLiilcu d uui gray W buiU II0
owner.
Both kinds Of shutters were made, Of
course, before Stats came in, and are simply
solid pieces Of wood surrounded with q.
moulding. -. y.
Does anybody still hang raDtarve at an
angle to the wall2 Has it not been impressed
on everybody that a picture to show to the
best advantage should hang fiat against
the wall? :.-.-
1t was not so long ago that every picture
dipped at an angle, maybe, Of 80 degrees.
The grouping Of pictures was Of course
impossible when this practice was followed.
because no two could ever be made to hang
at the same angle. Now pictures are hung
fat.
The tendency to put as little furniture
as possible into rooms has had Its effect on
the walls. One picture is now hung in the
centre Of each wall. Broad ribbonlike
wires-at least the wires are hidden by these .
ribbons, which fall from a rosette at the CELL
ing. Sometimes a very heavy silk. cord
c~onceals the swire and the cord is tied in
a fiat bow at the ceiling iNe.
Small pictures are hardest to arrange
in accordance with present styles. The best
treatment OF them is to make a mass effect
by hanging them all together.
Designers OF furniture are very busy.
1t might seem very simple for a furniture
maker to copy any of the fine chairs displayed
in the museums as examples Of the work Of
the great English furniture makers and de-
signers, but the manufacturers ara 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" q
salesman told a SUN reporter. Eve adapt
them to present day needs. We add some 4.
thing here and a novelty there, and, in our
opinion, produce a piece of furniture much
more artistic and more adapted to present
use."
He seemed proud of his ability to improve
on Heppelwhite and the rest Of them.
Some Of the designers know better. They
also know on what side their bread is but
tered.
Il know perfectly we'll" said a woman
who has been very successful in furniturs
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 thew call an excIu-.
sive pattern. So, merely for that reason,
and to sell our design for a good price,
we complaoently try to improve on tue
masters"