The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-08


SO. AT one time people bought for TINS
purpose limitations of the most elabor-
ate kinds of furniture-furniture up
boIstered and tufted and of course IN
suitable and cumbersome for COT 1try
use.
The wealthy furnished their city ana
their country houses pretty mucn allNe'
1t is not so now. With the appearaf'e>.
If mission furniture. so called, re-
action began to set in. Some women
began TO go in for simplicity with
vengeance.
They started in buying chairs, sofas,
tables which looked as if they haa
haan knocked together by a farmer or
a small boy on camping out racket
the very effect aimed at by the manu-
facturers. who remembered that IN"
original specimens were made by pio-
neer missionaries on the Pacific coast
who worked probably with hatchet
and hammer only and knew nothing
a bout cabinetmaking.
These novelties all angles and no
curves. Unpublished and unupholstered,
found plenty of buyers when they were
first displayed in New York. Later
designs are much more graceful IMAM
those first put on the market. Manu-
facturers have been turning out what
are called arts and crafts designs.
which have curves as well as stralgh'
lines and rounded as well IS sharp
edges and in which several materials
besides plain wood are used.
Nowadays it is the palmer class OF
furniture that is most in demand Tor
country houses and city apartments,
too. Take, for instance, cane seated
cane upholstered furniture.
In the old days none but the poor
bought cane chairs. Now the demand
for cane upholstered furniture is wide
spread, for the reason that the new
designs are handsome and stylish.
In the furniture stores you see
chairs. tables, sofas, chiffoniers, bed
steads and wardrobes paneled with
bIeached cane trimmed with strips OF
cane, in some cases the cane belng
more prominent than the wood. In
some articles weathered oak of natural
color is used for the mountings, in
others there is used quartered oak col
ored a dark green, lighter green or
a dull brown.
One graceful sofa had a back and
arms of cane mounted on weathered
oak, the seat being upholstered with
a plain strip Of dark green tapestry
The curves of the settees and of many
OF the chairs suggest Louis XIV. de-
signs.
Chiffoniers of the same wood are
trimmed with a panel of cane running
across each drawer and iengthwise or
the sides. the same idea being carried
out on the sides, the footboard and tie
headboard of the bedsteads Strips OF
cane trim the supports and the tops of
round tables, the bodies of which are
of weathered oak. Roman chairs, that
is, chairs without a back, have cane
seat and tall sides of oak trimmed with
cane.
The most popular wood is that which
looks most weather beaten, unpublished
effects, of course. putting polish of any
sort into the background.
.It is the well off, the smartest peo-
pie" said a dealer, who are keenest
about this style of furniture, which is
not by any means cheap, especially the
grades mounted in Circassian walnut
and natural mahogany.
1--WE have an order, by the way for a
suite of two cane settees, dozen
chairs of different designs and three
tables. all mounted in natural mahog-
any to go to the Long Island country
place of a rich New Yorker today
The house, was told. is not very large
and the owner wants it simply furnish
ed she says.
1--WE are also furnishing her dining
room, for which the owner selected
rush seated chairs of weathered oak
like these, for instance-which are
among the most popular designs just
now"
The chairs were less tall in the back
than some other designs, the seats ran
across instead of lengthwise and the
rush was inserted in the seat after the
pattern of leather upholstery.
These rush seated chairs cost a
trifie more than those with a plain
leather seat, but they will wear longer
and for the time being they are more
stylish the dealer said. THE side
board to go with this set is of the same
wood long and low in design.
I'VE sell no tail sideboards at all in
the simpler grades of furniture this
year, forty inches high by sixty inches
long being the favorite size A nine
inch wide mirror runs along the back
of one much liked design. In others
there are no decorations whatever, moth
ing but plain Stats or shallow shelf.
And the drawers and cupboards do
not run down to the floor you will
notice. In this, one of our very newest
models. the lower drawer is nine inches
from the floor, and that model, also
just received from the makers. has no
lower drawer, has nothing but small
side drawers, one long upper drawer
and a small middle closet.
..It is the latest style which was Sc
;ected to go with the rush seated dining
chairs, together with a round oak din
ing table supported by five perfectly
straight legs. 1t has no fancy under
pinning at all. We have no square
tables in. the newer designs. although
of course they can be ordered for Gus
toners who prefer square table,
I'VE are selling many dining chairs
of perfectly plain wood and the deal
err pointed to model of weathered
oak. The back was formed of cluster
of six length wise square Stats. perhaps
one inch across; which We're grouped
tow trd the center. There We're two
wider outside Stats and the seat round