Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-04
Wunamaker
Windows
Thirty-one of them!

Thirty-one of them!
They are always worth looking at, but
never so much so as during this Febru-
ary Furniture Sale-the furniture itself
never was quite so beautiful.
Start at the corner of Juniper and
Chestnut Streets and 60 around with the
Taker of Notes. The very first Chestnut
Street window shows a fine dining-room
suit, in Jacobean style, of antique
finished wood, the seats and backs of the
chairs upholstered.
In the next window is the furniture
for a luxurious living g-room--antique
walnut mirror, sofa, console table and
wing chair, with covering of gray
and-blue brocade. Next to this comes
a bedroom suit of creamy gray wood,
charmingly relieved by q Persian rug
with delicate blue and rose coloring.
Then little window with dark lacquered
furniture, and its mate showing a group
of peculiar grayish walnut-a console
table and two high-backed chairs with
seats of tapestry.
Beyond this is a dining room suit of
dark mahogany, upholstered with blue
haircloth, and set upon lovely Persian
rug. Last comes library table, desk
and side chair of dark mahogany, also
a tapestry-covered davenport which it
would be a joy to sink into, and tap
estry hanging, soft and gray in tone, on
the wall.
Now turn up Thirteenth Street toward
Market. More dark lacquered furniture
lamp, sewing table, armchair, cabinet,
even a slender, tall screen. The chair.
covering is Of brocade with green spark
ling daintily through it.
Beyond this is the simplest of refec-
toryNtables with an enticing luncheon for
one upon it, and rush-bottomed chairs,
enameled in black and green.
A Gothic oak cabinet, an oak table and
silver-oak armchair, tapestry uphol-
stored, have their color charmingly
brought out by a jar of apple-green
porcelain on the table.
A group in which a blue satin chaise
Tongue with a French cover of lace, an
enameled toilet table with two mirrors
and an enameled toilet table chair play
the leading parts, is luxurious enough for
the background of Madame Recamier
A low Chinese screen, carved and
gilded, a colorful lacquer cabinet, a
brown mahogany desk and high-backed
chair make a group that should find a
corner in some library; while the window
next it-altogether of red lacauered
pieces, even to the tall lamp-shows how
right children and men are in their love
for red. Before we turn the corner lust
note the depth and breadth of that
antique mahogany armchair with the
flag bottom.
Now for Market Street. Who was It
that said blue was tranquillizing? The
householder who buys this dining-room
suit all in blue enamel will have chance
to prove it. Even the Chinese rug on
the floor is blue and cream.
Quaintness and oldtimeyness are the
notes of bedroom suit, with its canopied
bed in puppies and yellows and its
n braided rugs repeating the same hues.
Another dining-room suit in walnut
and blue brocade has the cozy round
table and china closet which would be
JOY to some February bride in her new
home.
Two fetching small groups are one
with an Adam mirror, fernery and escri-
toire, and another with some fine walnut
pieces, both given value by the exquisite
Oriental coloring of the narrow Persian
rugs.
A living-room suit all in walnut and
gold is full of dignity and grace of line;
and a dining-room suit of the same wood
is relieved by pieces of green Venetian
glass among the smaller furnishings.
The straw-colored and blue bedroom
suit in the corner should find a home in
some quaint cottage with lots of roses
peeping in at the windows
Now around Juniper Street. The very
first window has pieces of black lacquer,
and the chairs and ottoman are covered
with black sateen piped with yellow.
Nothing could be more perfect with the
Chinese accessories.
Next to it are good examples of enam-
eled furniture-dull green and tan-odd
distinguished, likable things. Next
again shows in almost solitary pride a
wee sofa in dull, dark rose-the kind
of sofa a woman with tiny iewel-like
rooms to furnish would fall upon with
glee.
Chairs of mahogany of most graceful
design occupy another window, and there
are Persian colors in the striped silk of
the chair seats to echo the colors in the
Persian rug under it.
Italian walnut chairs, decorated:
red embroidered love-seat; some Jaco-
bean pieces are in the next again, and
here we are back at the Juniper and
Chestnut Streets corner. where Charles
ii easv chairs in red velvet and a richly
wrought console with iron base com
plete the story.
But--,inspiring as they are to the lover
of beautiful homes--these windows ara
nothing compared with the three great