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The walls are
paneled and painted a soft taupe there are no pictures; simply one very
beautiful mirror in a dull-gold frame, a Louis XVI reproduction.
The carpet made
of dark taupe velvet covers the entire floor. The furniture is Louis XV,
of the wonderful painted sort, the beautiful bed with its low head and
foot boards exactly the same height, curving backward; the edges a waved
line, the ground-color a lovely pistachio green, and the decoration gay
old-fashioned garden flowers in every possible shade.
The bureau has
three or four drawers and a bowed front with clambering flowers. These two
pieces, and a delightful night table are exact copies of the Clyde Fitch
set in the Cooper Hewitt Museum, at New York; the originals are genuine
antiques, and their color soft from age. A graceful dressing table with
winged mirrors, has been designed to go with this set, and is painted like
the bureau. The glass is a modern reproduction of the lovely old
eighteenth century mirror glass which has designs cut into it, forming a
frame.
For chairs,
all-over upholstered ones are used, of good lines and proportions; two or
three for comfort, and a low slipper-chair for convenience. These are
covered in a chintz with a light green ground, like the furniture, and
flowered in roses and violets, green foliage and lovely blue sprays.
The window
curtains are of soft, apple-green taffeta, trimmed with a broad puffing of
the same silk, edged on each side by black moss-trimming, two inches wide.
These curtains hang from dull-gold cornices of wood, with open carving,
through which one gets glimpses of the green taffeta of the curtains.
In another suite
we have a boudoir done in sage greens and soft browns. The curtains of
taffeta, in stripes of the two colors. Two tiers of crème net form sash
curtains.
The carpet is a
rich mulberry brown, day-bed a reproduction of an antique, painted in
faded greens with pannier fleur design on back, in lovely faded colors,
taffeta cushions of sage green and an occasional note about the room of
mulberry and dull blue. Electric light shades are of decorated parchment
paper.
Really an
enchanting nest, and as it is in a New York apartment, and occasionally
used as a bedroom, a piece of furniture has been designed for it similar
to the wardrobe shown in picture, only not so high. The glass door, when
open, discloses a toilet table, completely fitted out, the presence of
which one would never suspect.
Boudoir in New
York Apartment. Painted Furniture, Antique and Reproductions
The sash-curtains
are of the very finest cream net, and the window shades are of glazed
linen, a deep cream ground, with a pattern showing a green lattice over
which climb pink roses. The shades are edged at the bottom with a narrow
pink fringe.
The bed has a
cover of green taffeta exactly like curtains, with the same trimming of
puffed taffeta, edged with a black moss trimming.
The mantelpiece
is true to artistic standards and realizes the responsibility of its
position as keynote to the room. Placed upon it are a beautiful old clock
and two vases, correct as to line and color.
Always be careful
not to spoil a beautiful mantel or beautiful ornaments by having them out
of proportion one with the other. Plate XXIV shows a mantel which fails as
a composition because the bust, an original by Behest, beautiful in
itself, is too heavy for the mantel it Stands on and too large for the
mirror, which reflects it and serves as its background.
Keep everything
in correct proportion to the whole. We have in mind the instance of some
rarely beautiful walls taken from an ancient monastery in Parma, Italy.
They were ideal in their original setting, but since they have been
transported to America, no setting seems right. They belonged in a
building where there was a succession of small rooms with low ceilings,
each room perfect like so many pearls on a string. Here in America their
only suitable place would be a museum, or to frame the tiny "devotional"
of some precious Flower of Modernity.
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