New Britain herald., 1928-05-21
(By Julia Blanshard)

(by JuIlA bldNtHdIlJ
 New. York, May q. - Dining rooms. somewhat obsolescent in this skyscraper apartment age. are grow ing more modern than the modern ists who decided they were no longer needed.
 In a current modernisttc exposi- ton. nothing could be more distinc- tive and yet more expressive of this age than the dining rooms.
 Today a new attitude towards life is pervading our costumes, thinking, activities Furniture. its setting and the homes that house 1t reflect the same modernism. It IS completely untraditional. But so are happers!
 They're Restful
 First of all. the dining rooms rcstful quality about them sur- passing anything dreamed of by the ornate. cluttered up, heavily furnish ed rooms of a few decades ago. En- tering them ones nerves just must relax. it would seem. and digestion pC 0iuCO oHIohSNioAoiy'
 Second, these new dining rooms know their psychology of color. Dining rooms for summer use cool. refreshing tones: those for winter employ touches of warmth in their darker schemes.
 Third, just as all modernistic rooms now make use Of media other than wood, the new dining rooms skillfully combine with wood. marble, silk, cotton. crystal ivory onyx. cork. zinc, iron, brass. cop per, asbestos and almost anything else one could name.
 Soft Green and Yellow
 Stepping into a summer dining room designed by Professor Bruno Paul of Germany is more refresh- ing than having a cool breeze blow unexpectedly on a boiling day. ! It is done in the most delicate green, soft chartreuse. Walls are in softly tinted lemon yellow silk, hand painted on one side with modernistic floral interpretations in other soft greens and yellow.
 The rug has four shades, the soft lemon yellow for the center with three shades of this astonishingly fresh chartreuse and two deeper tones bordering it in stripes. The furniture is all light green lacquer with white marble tops and touches of silver every now and then to continue the gleam of the silken walls.
 All the lighting in this room comes through the silk. There are no lighting fixtures whatever. But when dusk fall a turns of the switch brings a glow around the upper portion of the silken walls that rivals the softest daylight.
 Tho combination buffet dining table l. of green lacquer and un- folds its modernistic. geometric shape to make a refectory table of no mean length.
 Curtains of slithering. gleamlng silk, striped like the chenille carpet lin chartreuse, cream and two deep- CT green tones hang on silver rods clear to the floor. And little built-in cupboard for some jazzy modcrnistic animals in porcelain has its silver lining. The entire pie ture is more daintily delicate than the first tender shoots of spring flowers.
 Rich, Colorful Treatment
 Contrasting warmly colorful and of dignined beauty is the Italian dining room done in tans, brown with touches of rich rcd.
 l This room uses a combination of ten materials to create it. The flower-like lighting fixtures are swung above metal chandelier that uses the same pattern of curves that jthe Rodier cloth on the walls em- ploys. The tufted carpets in soft tans, brown and deep red repeat it. The crystal toor, with it's modern istic mosaic of cut glass. uses the same general lines and curves.
 Impression of Space
 Here the sense of vistas is ad- mirably given. Heavy grilled doors Head the eye to the colorful rose beige living room beyond one side ..The crystal door gives an impress sion of more interesting spectacles on the other side and a third out let. long window. has it's draperies from ceiling 10 floor in order not tc detract the eye from it's outward gaze.
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