New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-03
* WOMAN'S VARIED INTERESTS *
WANT a FUTURIST HOME?
How Your Modern
Ideas in Practice ia the
ubiquitous Six-Room Flat.
TOW for the Futurist house!

log on the pink CHINA tiled heartn.
All the interior decoration dear to
the heart of the landlord is doomed
and the common fat is to be made to
blossom with reds and greens and
yellows as brave as any in gay Paree.
The first Futurist fiat has been fur
nished by Mrs. Edward Ascherman,
at 120 East 31st ST. Not only fur
nished. but lived in-without night
mare. either. Mrs. Ascherman says
she likes it, and it is because she be-
lieves that other women are going TO
ike it. too. that she chose a fiat TO
furnish rather than bungalow in the
country. which would be easier but
not so useful to sister seekers who
wish relief from the sameness OF dec
Grafton found in apartments.
The first thing Mrs. Ascherman did
after she found her fiat was to scrape
off all the mahogany finish from every
piece of wood in the house. The oak
finish from the dining room went
next, and the cherry finish from the
bedroom. All the woodwork was
painted a plain white, and with the
atmosphere thus clarified she was able
to apply her mind to the problem at
hand.
White Woodwork Blackened.
The nice clean, white woodwork N
the front bedroom was not suffered to
remain so. That was the fault OF the
rose and black Viennese linen hang
ings which Mr.. Ascherman picked up
in Paris last winter. These, he said,
must be the keynote OF the front
room serving Ascherman and Ascher-
man, partners in the interior decorat-
inc business, as a reception room and
Office. The curtains had black back
ground on which were set diamond
shaped medallions Of white, with red
roses and green leaves. Il
That single red rose formed the
motif for the room. The walls were
painted white, and then stencilled with
the rose design in black, forming
stripes about four inches apart. The
edges of the woodwork were painted
black 10 match the walls. and here
md there in a corner little black
rose was painted.
The black and white wall is the
most prominent feature of the room,
bu. the funeral effect is dissipated by
the extreme perkiness of the little
black roses. They nod at the visitor
~ impertinent little welcome and DIS
--l the convention that black is dis
0al >
After the visitor looks about a bit
the black roses retire into the back
ground and the red roses assert them
selves. There is one climbing over
the back of the big chair. The prim,
straight backed chairs are upholstered
in rose color and the backs painted
with roses, and there are bits of rose
colored pottery on the black and
white mantel.
The black and white and rose shade
over the electric lights is one OF Mrs.
Ascherman's chief treasures.
1T is batk work" she explains.
THAT is a process which comes from
lava, and which is bound to take the
place of stencilling as soon as people
know about it. 1t is done on silk by
a process of dyeing.
Javanese Batik Work.
This, for example. was piece OF
plain white silk. / drew the design
of the rose medallion on it, and then
covered the medallion with kind OF
wax and dipped the whole in the black
dye. The medallion was left uncol-
ored.
The next time l covered it all with
wax except the rose itself, and dipped
it in red dye. This can be repeated
any number of times, of course, &C
cording to the number of colors in
your design. The smallest details can
be filled in with water colors.
The great advantage of batik over
stencilling is that stencilling is posi-
bic only when you want to apply dark
colors to a light background. With
batik you can have light figures on a
black background
The second room in the Futurist
apartment is the den. This is in rose
and green-the brightest green that
ever lived outside of spring poem.
The walls are lavender, covered with
tiny sprigs of roses and green leaves.
The color tone of the room is taken,
however. from the rose and green OF
the linen with which the chairs are
upholstered. This is curious all
color design, in which are gray, law
ender, blue. yellow and the rose and
green which strikes the color note Of
the room.
A round green rug is under the
round black table. Rose colored silk