The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-09
The Home Harmonious.
@EW people realize the excellence Of
. painted furniture as an adjunct of
period furnishing. They consider
painted furniture as such in a class


- painted furniture as an adjunct of
period furnishing. They consider
1 painted furniture as such in a class
by Itself. But 1t should not be cas-
sihed in this way. There are as many
distinct types of painted furniture as
there are styles in different natural wood
finish.
So varying are the sorts of painted
pieces that often two pieces belonging to
different periods are utterly "impossI-
bic together in one room. Take, forey-
ample, the exquisite, dainty Adam chair
delicate in both construction and coloripr
and place 1t beside Bavarian chest or
table that Is made and painted in vigorous
style, and one fairly kills the other. They
are entirely Incompatible, though both
come under the common heading Of paint
ed furniture.
OF whatever sort 1t may be, painted fur.
niture never was more popular than 1t is
Today. So that we no longer make plea
Tor 1t, as We did year ago. but rather
warn that care be taken not to spoil its
popularity by indiscriminate selection.
We have acquired dauntless admiration
of good color combinations and while wa
rejoice in we'll related tones we must not
lose sight of the feet that forms must be
equally we'll related. Interest has not
only been revived In the sorts of painted
furniture that were made in the past, but
modern variations have been Improyised.
AS to the period decoration, almost
every era has some representative paint
ed pieces. And now that period furnish
Ing is SO extensively INDUCED in In our
modern homes, many homemakers who
have furnished certain rooms in period
style and have been secretly little dis
appointed because Of the somberness Of
the general effect, will be glad to know
just what painted pieces may be correct
ly added to the period room to relieve its
oppressiveness.
Jacobean furniture has been 30 tire.
mendously popularized by reproduction,
some good and some bad, that 1t has at
least become familiar to the general fur
niture buyer. Painting In this particular
period was usually done upon the carved
surfaces Of the wood, Decidedly strong
colors were uSed and the medium en-
ployed was Glstemper Figures in the
carving, Mosques, animals. human ag-
ures, etc, in panels, and over mantels
were brought out by means of rolors.
The paint was bright and rendered even
brilliant by the addition of gilt traclngs,
Heraldlc devices were blazoned with her.
aldo hues Unlike the well known fac-
tory reproductions in deadly brown, It
was full Of life and color.
A satisfying living room in the Jaco.
bean spirit has fine pair of mirrors
forming wall panels, Enclosed in carved
frames that are exQuisItely touched up
in polychrome, and great carved chest,
used as woodbox, has Its panels sim
IlRrly enlivened with polychrome paint
ing. A cabinet filled with blue and white
delft and oriental china echoes the colors
In the carving. This room is lighted with
wax candles in brass candlesticks. and in
brass sconces on the side walls. The
whole Is enhanced by rich silks. yelyets,
tapestries, and damasks, Spanish gilt
leather Is introduced as frieze. The
parQuetry door ia covered withnnO Per-