. International studio. THE IDEAL OF INFORMALITY DEMANDS NO ARBITRARY INSISTENCE ON IDENTITY IN PERIOD STYLE and stool, and a dignified old sec-retary desk might stand in one corner. No one piece of furniture, in theproperly considered informal interior,is either essential or necessity lies in the direction ofcommon sense and generosity; thenegligible quantity is arbitrary in-sistence upon matched pieces. Another interior is shown in whichthe architectural manner, althoughobviously more assuming than thatof the first, is yet in no sense dicta-torial in the matter of style. Th
. International studio. THE IDEAL OF INFORMALITY DEMANDS NO ARBITRARY INSISTENCE ON IDENTITY IN PERIOD STYLE and stool, and a dignified old sec-retary desk might stand in one corner. No one piece of furniture, in theproperly considered informal interior,is either essential or necessity lies in the direction ofcommon sense and generosity; thenegligible quantity is arbitrary in-sistence upon matched pieces. Another interior is shown in whichthe architectural manner, althoughobviously more assuming than thatof the first, is yet in no sense dicta-torial in the matter of style. Thefurniture might be Gothic, Tudor,Elizabethan, Jacobean, Carolean orRenaissance Italian or Spanish, with. AN INTERIOR OF AN ADMIRABLYINFORMAL TYPE WHICH OFFERSA FINE OPPORTUNITY FOR VARIEDFURNITURE SELECTION On the Ideal of Informality perhaps, a few pieces of unmistakable QueenAnne or William and Mary origin. By all means it is an ideal setting for a greattable, whether of the Italian Renaissance type orof Elizabethan or Jacobean refectory this, of course, a long bench and stools,and for the rest of the room comfortable sofasand chairs, in well-chosen coverings, a few smallincidental tables and hutches or cabinetsfor the wall spaces. In short, the spirit of the room, in spite of itsarchitectural manner or because of it, is one ofinformality and harmonious variety. The mostimportant considerations are those of scale andcolour, the latter being more obvious than theformer. In a room of such generous proportions,scale is essential, and an assemblage of smallpieces will prove distressingly inadequate. Theremust be a certain number of massive, substantialpieces, about which as nucle
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