The herald., 1922-02-09
BRADFORD'S HOME
EXHIBIT COMPLETE
Housewives Reception Will Be Given For
Three Days

a three-day reception to the house
wives Of New Orleans-the iadyfolk
who are the city's home-makers-is
to be held by the House of Bradford
at Carondelet and Howard avenue
on Thursday. Friday and Saturday.
February 16, II and IS. During
those three days the art of making
a beautiful home, whether carefully
save hundreds of dollars or lavish
ly-spent thousands are expended,
will be made as plain as the primary
school "A. B. c."
Twenty-one OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ed rooms-fOur complete homes
have been built and equipped at
cost of more than $4,000 by Brad
ford's on the fourth floor OF their
building. Here, in modern artistic
and efficient display, is the finest
array of furniture ever exhibited in
the South. And this furniture is
shown under the exact conditions
that surround it when it is placed
in home ready for occupancy.
Not a single string is attached to
this three-day invitation. Nobody
can buy anything at Bradford's dur
ing those three days, even if they
want to. Not an article will be sold.
The city's homemakers during that
period are to be guests in these
princely apartments, to view this
last minute exhibit of furniture,
rugs, draperies and pictures, and
to hear brief and entertaining talks
by noted speakers who will tell of
home-making. period furniture and
interior decoration. especially for
those of moderate means.
Dorothy Dix to Speak.
The program of talks to be given
during those three days includes:
Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Gil
mer), world-noted writer and travel
er, whose stories are published daily |
throughout the English speaking |
world in syndicate form, has con-
sented to be the first speaker on
Thursday, February 16. She will talk |
on Home Making" and will enliven |
her address with some of her in
imitable stories of Southern life. And |
Dorothy Dix. a native New Orleans
woman, knows the South as do few.
Professor Ellsworth Woodward,
noted artist and educator, member
Of the faculty of Tulane University
and head of the Art Department of
Newcomb College, will speak on
Period Furniture" on the second
day of the reception, Friday, Feb
ruary II.
Mrs Guy Manners, writer travel
er and lecturer, will be the third
speaker, and her talk on Inferior
Decoration" will be given on Sat-
urday, February 18th. Mrs. Man.
ners, too, is an authority on the
subject of interior decoration of
homes. She has specialized on in
terror decoration for homes of those
of modest means.
Artistic Display
These twenty-one rooms that have
been installed, decorated and furnish
ed completely in the Bradford firms
building at Carondelet and Howard
avenue present the finest array of
artistically arranged furniture in the |
South The display even excels in |
volume and in detail the famous fur
niture departments of some of the
large eastern institutions. q
There need to be no more con-
fusion in buying furniture" said A.
T. II. Bradford, Manager of Brad
ford's on Saturday, as he supervised
putting the last touches to this mag
nificent suite of rooms. Under the
old system, when people went to
buy furniture, they could only tell
how it would look after they had
It arranged in their homes. In
the furniture store, they were con-
ironted with rows on rows of chairs,
rows on rows of tables, bedroom
suites, all placed in endless array.
It was confusing, at the very least.
Here we can show the people of
New Orleans exactly how their
nome and look when equipped with
he furniture they select. For ex-
,mple-"
He led the way into a perfectly
appointed kitchen. There was the
model kitchen before the eyes OF
he visitor. White enamel kitchen
,abinet. table refrigerator and sink
we're there. Kitchen range, lineole-
I'm floor, white walls, white-curtain-
ID windows with flowers in them. a
cleaning hot-water plant-the whole
.oom showing exactly how that out
it would look when installed In a
lome.
Through the door one walked into
! dining room in which the table
vas set as though the family was
bout to sit down to dinner. Shaded
lights glowed softly. Table-linen ,
,leamed Whitley. Silver and glass
md china sparkled. Flowers we're I
resh on the table. A soft-toned
ug covered the floor.
Comfort keynote. I
hn .