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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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32 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS January, 1912
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Black-and-gold and other patterns of brilliant colors in modern reproductions of old wall-papers and fabrics designed in the Chinese taste and in wall-papers. The black chintzes are not exactly ' I 'HE furniture, of dark oak, was built on straightforward what their name implies, for they are not really black, but X lines and resembled the lighter Mission furniture to a are gaily patterned in brilliant colors against black grounds, certain extent. The legs and main structural parts of the Large bunches of conventional flowers, parrots, pagodas furniture had been turned, which eliminated the extreme and branches of trees, all treated in the Chinese style, are angularity and heaviness which is characteristic of most usually the decoration. The colors are all very vivid and Mission furniture, and the pieces had the appearance of the designs are well distributed, so as to cover up most of some of the old English furniture of turned wood, the background. These chintzes are very attractive in them- papering and furnishing a colonial dining-room selves when properly employed. As black-grounded chintzes A READER requests a suggestion for papering a large were inspired by the black lacquers and porcelains, having f~\ dining-room having ivory-white woodwork, and asks a black background, and their characteristics of design being what furniture would look well therein. A gray striped essentially Chinese, these chintzes would look best in a room paper or a plain gray oatmeal paper will combine beauti- where the Chinese note is accentuated. A room papered fully with the ivory-white paint. As for the furniture, re- in one of the Chinese figured papers, harmonizing with the productions in mahogany of a table and chairs after the hangings and upholstery, is very attractive, and the same designs of Hepplewhite are excellent for the dining-room sort of papers and fabrics look especially well in a room of a house which is being carried out in the Colonial spirit, having brown-stained furniture of the cottage type, or with A built-in china-closet could take the place of a side- willow-ware and the Singalese and Chinese hour-glass chairs board, and a little servingtable of the same sttyle used, now imported and for sale in eastern shops. Chinese em- One sees these built-in closets in a great many Colonial broideries, or even Japanese prints framed in narrow, flat, houses throughout the country. black moldings, and Geisha lampshades, with their black lacquered frames, help to tie the color scheme of such a room to- gether. Such a treatment is suitable for a room having a great deal of sunlight. A LIBRARY LIVING-ROOM AN interesting arrangement for the living- Lroom was seen in a recently completed small house in the suburbs of Boston. The owner desired a large living-room, so instead of dividing the lower floor west of the hall into two rooms, as originally planned, he decided to leave it in one spacious room running the entire depth of the house. The French windows at the rear opened onto a brick-paved terrace, and from the living- room one could catch pleasant vistas of an old-fashioned garden beyond the terrace. ALTHOUGH there was no actual line of ^demarcation visible, it was decided to have the end of the room, beyond the chimney-breast and facing on the terrace, do duty as a library, while the remainder

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