The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-30
Mural Paintings Of Exquisite Design Are the Work
OF II. l.. A. Culmer.

The beautiful new Mecca buffet in
the new Kearns building will be the
scene of public reception tomorrow
The room will be open for the inspec-
tion of the public all day. Special ar
rangements have been made for the re-
ception of ladies who call at the buffet
during the day. The buffet will not be
open for business until Tuesday and
the reception will give the public the
orative work and the handsome mural
paintings, the triumph of one of the
greatest artists in America,
To those who have not had advance
knowledge of the elaborateness and
completeness of the decorations of the
new room the taste III arrangement, the
beauty Of design and the elegant and
costly fixtures of the new buffet Will
come as distinct surprise. Not de
tail has been sighted in making the
buffet the very best and those who
statement made on the authority of per
sons experienced in decorating and fit
ting buffets that the Mecca buffet
is the finest an appointment and IN dec
Grafton in America
The Mecca buffet will be operated
under the management of the Doran X
Weed company, proprietors of the Ken
yon and the Annex buffets. They have
secured the services of skilled artisans
and talented artists In making the buff
fet the best in the country,
The buffet is becoming an essential
feature of all modern office buildings
and is considered as much a part of
the building as is the buffet neces-
| sary adjunct to a hotel, In the con
struction of his handsome new office
| building Senator Thomas Kearns made
arrangements for the establishment of
buffet, but he insisted that the buffet
should be credit to the city. Assur-
ance was made that the finest buffet
in the city would be established in the
building, but the propri of the
IN America
| Leading from the main lobby of the
Kearns building handsome stained glass
| doors, bound in heavy brass, open into
the single room which the buffet occu-
pies. This appears to be more Of an
art gallery than anything else.
The rays of sunlight coming from
the rear are softenod and transformed
by a beautiful art window, represent
atIve of the rising sun. The art win
dow is semi circular in shape and occu-
pies the entire rear of the upper part
| of the room. In front of the window
is balcony projecting over the office,
| The glorious tints of the morning are
reflected in the ceiling decorations
with the delicate shadlngs in the paint
ing representative of the sky at va
rious periods Of the day until it blends
gradually into the primrose evening
Each ceiling panel has as a center
piece an artistic grouping of female
figures.
On either side of the upper half oil
the wall are series of cherub groups
exquisitely done in alto-relievo, One
of these is representative of cheruh
dance, another is of circling cherubs to
the music Of a cherub band, third
is cherub drinking scene, fourth is
while the fifth represents the cherub:
bathing. In this the artist gives tc
the cherubs all of the antics of thu
modern boy at the swimming hole.
The interior of the buffet is the de
sign of 3. o. Mecklenburg, Salt Lake
architect Mr.. Mecklenburg made tn,
designs for the interior arrangement
and for the decorations. His artistic
work proved an innovation in interio,
decorating design. and this interior
ranks with the best in the country il
beauty of design and artistic arrange
ment.
The mural paintings are the pro
duction of II. l.. A. Culmer. the famous
/ Utah artist, whose work with the brusl
, has won him international fame.
, Mr.. Culmer is concluding his worl
and by tomorrow morning every
thing will be ready for the opening
, Mr.. Culmer has spared no pains in tn,
decorations and mural paintings. Hi
artistic hand is descernible in all of tn
delicate shadings, in the rose blow o