Our doors and windows : how to decorate them . tice and screens, Persian metal-work, and textile fabrics of either China, Japan, Persia or India—or of all of could be more suitable ? There should be very little furniture in the room—a few low tables for holding pipes and coffee, and an almost unlimited quantityof richly-covered cushions of va-rious hues. The carpet should beof plain brown or olive green, overwhich should be thrown the bestOriental rugs the purse of themaster could afford. Above the dado, formed by thedivan surrounding the room, thewalls might be covered with juteplus
Our doors and windows : how to decorate them . tice and screens, Persian metal-work, and textile fabrics of either China, Japan, Persia or India—or of all of could be more suitable ? There should be very little furniture in the room—a few low tables for holding pipes and coffee, and an almost unlimited quantityof richly-covered cushions of va-rious hues. The carpet should beof plain brown or olive green, overwhich should be thrown the bestOriental rugs the purse of themaster could afford. Above the dado, formed by thedivan surrounding the room, thewalls might be covered with juteplush (which might be embroid-ered) or with one of the beautifuland inexpensive Japanese chintzes,which come in dull olive greens,reds and old gold, and are effect-ively broken with diaper designsin gold or silver. There might bea pierced wooden frieze of Moor-ish design, with oblong openings,filled in with a running floral pat-tern painted on the plaster or oncanvas. The ceiling might bepaneled with pierced Moorishwood-work. — Art No. 20. Suggestions for Offices, DrugStores, Theatre Work, Etc. !«0S;i7!igiil»iiljj|iniiit!Sii!iS»i|iieS«i|iigsiii!>iiii!lSii!!fi«!«ilJliilJiiS!Si«K£Si^^«SiS£i !S||ij|«!ijg|j^|ji|!yR»;iiiiS|pigi!|gilig^J iwsuftjv-vaii
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