The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-08
SIMPLE, LIGHT EFFECTS IN
THE BEST COUNTRY HOUSES
Cane introduced Into All Kinds OF Furnture---
Wooden Four Posters Preferred to
Brass Beds Green Draperes.


variety with stretched leather seat and
a crosswise band of leather across the
back. represent together with the
rush seat design, the most popular and
stvlfsh designs of the season.
.Tufted leather is old-faShioned now;
so is the style upholstered solidly on the
seat and back with leather. Bright red
leather is one of the fads of the mo-
ment for dining room chairs-a plain
band crossing the back near the top, a
small square on the seat bounded with
a broad band of oak or mahogany as
the case may be.
Included in the Long Island order IS
one of the new style rush library
touches with bookcases attached"
The piece of furniture he pointed out
was made entirely of rush with a head
piece at one end raised about one and
one-half feet above the cushioned level.
and a back devided into two sections,
one thrae feet high and the other per-
haps one foot.
The seat cushion above a movable
box spring was covered with a dark
green tapestry. Backed against the
head piece and of equal height was
set of rush book shelves. and bound
ing the other end was a five foot high
set of rush book shelves facing inward.
Either bookcase may be detached from
the couch. A book lover who likes to
read at his ease with his books handy
would find this couch ideal.
Near the couch was a rush cellarette,
about three and one-half feet high, fit
ted with shelves and two doors, which
is designed for use either in a dining
room or library for holding liquid
refreshments.
A library table designed to serve two
purposes will prove a boon to persons
/ living in cramped quarters. 1t is three
and one-half feet by two feet, and built
! in sections or layers, the lower OF
which. drawn out, forms writing desk
| equipped with a stationary inkstand
sunk into the wood, a pen rack and
| shallow drawer.
| Another space saving novelty is
round table four feet in diameter,
/ which when not in use may be swung
/ over on hinges to form a back for the
! armchair on which it rests when up
/ right.
Art lamps are one of the most salts
| factory products of this seasons house
furnishing novelties. Most of them are
| made of wood-dark oak usually-and
| they stand on their supports, anywhere
| from twelve inches to five feet high.
| One example of the latter style utilizes
the space near the base for a small
! closet.
| In this, as in the less imposing vari-
/ cites designed to stand on a table or a
| pedestal. the bowl of the lamp is sunk
out of sight in the wooden column, and
the whole is topped with shade seldom
/ 4
] pa CODA shaped roof of stained glass
which completely covers the lamps
chimney. In one of these shades deep
/ fringe of red beads added to its Orien-
| tai appearance.
Silver gray maple of the tint and
finish so conspicuous in the foreign ex-
| hibit at the ST Louis fair has caught
the fancy of New Workers who can
afford to spend a fairly large sum on
| bedroom furniture Just now it is more
! in demand than birdseye maple, and
all the up-to-date furniture dealers
! are showing dressers, chiffoniers, dres-
sing tables, bedsteads of silver gray
maple-a color, by the way, which has
slight tinge of green in it-polished
! to shine like satin.
/ This wood, for the time being said
| a furniture man, has put birdseye
maple in the shade, although it COM
mands slightly higher price, and I
! fancy that one reason for it's popularity
I is the vogue of green draperes wall
! papers and upholstering fabrics.
| Not since I have been in the bus-
ness, which is a good many years, has
green had such popularity. Twenty
/ years ago for one room we hung with
green we did twenty with some other
| color. Now for every room we furnish
with red pink, blue, brown or yellow
we do twenty in green The gray
maple harmonizes with green better
! than the yellow maple
! As complete contrast, though, to
maple bedsteads of either kind is the
four poster of weathered oak or other
dark wood, which, in defiance of the
new-fashioned idea that four-posters