New Britain herald., 1928-10-27
Modernism Made Restful
 By Simplicity Of Design
JULIA BI.ANSHARD

New York. Oct. e7.-Modern art has angled and circled its way su.- cessfully into the very dreams of contemporary America.
 For. in all the interiors done in the modern manner with geomet- ric designs, nothing IS more hap oily executed than modern bed rooms. Especially is this true in bedrooms for the American boy or for the American man.
 Simplicity of line, inherent strength, comfort and a charming blending of colors to give life and yet subdued beauty to the scheme these are some of the qualities of modern bedrooms for men.
 Now Design Our Own
 American now fashions It's own modern furniture. without relying upon Europe for design. materials or color schemes. From the deli cate new modern wallpaper, car pets and rugs, through the whole house down to the least candle stick used at dinner or the after dinner coffee spoon. one can have a 100 per cent American home. done in the modern manner.
 And in fashioning its own things in contemporary manner, American manufacturers take into consideration the characteristics of those who will use the various things. Furniture and furnish ings for mems rooms. for instance. reflect the comfort, practicality and interesting design Americans like as background for their per- sonalities. Decorative schemes employ the soft nuances that to- day produces. but use colors that avoid, any suggestion of effemi- macy.
 GeOmatric Figures
 Browns, tans. soft greys and sil- vers are the favorite backgrounds for mems bedrooms. Of course there are lively touches, red. yol- low. blue or green. Angles. cir cles and other geometric designs
  oration on modern things. But ingenuity fn design produces some very interesting figures that seem remote from a simple angle or cir cle.
 In bachelors room. for in- stance. the entire motif of design Is some geometric figure. The wall paper is soft silver with an intricate. almost invisible. pattern in browns and grey. with little touch of green. The carpet of a brown foundation Is woven with seometric curves and crossing angles tn tan. grey and green. The hooked rugs use angles and straight lines, in the same shades.
 The bed fs the outstanding piece of furniture, q very restful. comfortable. low swung bed of finely grained maple and birch, with a geometric design inlaid in silver lacquered wood and ivory. The sides Of the frame and the two ends have step-downs like sky-scrapers. only they arc done more gracefully on the slant
 There Is novel chiffonier of matching woods, with an inlaid front of great beauty. in lattice effect, with silver. ebony and ivory. A low bedside table, with modernistic lamp atop 1t. has two deen drawers for economy's sake. For a man who avoids too much novelty, another bed has almost severe outlines and an iniaid sfl- yer pattern in gently curving ares , This bed has checked coverfet in tans and tilver and uses the new colored sheets in very mas. culine tan shade.>
 Not only are these modern bed rooms extremely comfortable. rest full in color and vastly interesting they are really national achieve ment in the way they catch the stimulating spirit of modern art and make it truly expressive ot the energetic quality that is typi- cal of American men today.