HOUSES AND GARDENS 



who have represented the British section. In thus recognising the claims of 

 the individual artist in this field of design these German firms seem to set an 

 example which might well be followed in this country, where, so far, furniture 

 is still considered a commercial product merely, and its design as hardly 

 worthy of serious study as an art. 



The examples of furniture illustrated are selected from designs made for 

 Mr. J. P. White of Bedford, and published in a book of furniture which may 

 be obtained from him. The rose bedstead and dressing-table are part of a 

 suite designed tor a bedroom in which the rose prevails. The walls and 

 ceiling are decorated with a trellis of roses. Gleams of pale blue sky show 

 between the flowers, birds cling and flutter amidst the branches. 



The daffodil dresser is part of a room where cool fresh spaces of green and 

 grey are relieved by pale yellow blossoms. 



Each piece of furniture is a thing to be considered not entirely alone, but 

 qualities depend in every case on the proper relation to a complete scheme 

 when this furniture finds itself happily at home in a little world of colour 

 and form. 



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