THE GARDEN MA GAZ 
INSIDE 
THE 
GARDEN HOME 
JAMES COLLIER MARSHALL 
May, 
Combining Furniture Types Successfully 
Mr. James Collier Marshall, Director of the Decorating Service of The Garden Magazine’s Advertising Dept., will solve your problems of home 
decoration—color schemes, hangings, floor coverings, art objects and interior arrangements, making purchases at the most favorable prices. 
This service is free to our readers. 
HE question most 
frequently put to 
the professional de- 
corator is whether he con- 
siders the period type of 
decoration the only correct 
one for general use. There 
is nothing harder for him to 
answer than this as his repu- 
tation as an artist is at once 
placed on public trial. From 
the viewpoint of the Purist 
in Art there can be no choice 
from the period type, but 
the really great artist in 
decorative scheming knows 
that pure period furnishing, 
however beautiful, is cold 
and unresponsive and can 
never be made to seem 
homelike, because no pure 
type ever allows the expres- 
sion of individuality, that 
necessary personal touch 
that vitalizes and makes 
unique a scheme otherwise 
entirely correct. 
The interesting part of 
this is that the cleverest and 
most artistic decorators have all, at some time or other, 
been Purists in style, having reached their present state 
through much travail of soul over the cold results of 
their labors in the pure types, realizing at last that the 
most satisfying decoration is one where the type or 
There is distinction in this 
teak stand with marble top. 
12x16” x32” it costs $10.00 
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Seldom does one find for $65.00 so fine looking a chair as this 
one upholstered in rich colored wool tapestry. It is ideal for 
the living room 
period is diversified and given point by the introduction 
of another kind of similar characteristics. 
For example, in a drawing room I have seen where 
the general design is Adam, there were harmoniously 
grouped with the slender legged exquisitely painted 
satinwood furniture, a cabriole legged Chippendale 
armchair, lacquered an old gold and brown very like the 
colors of the satinwood, and a delicate shield backed 
Hepplewhite side chair of mahogany. Now, to the 
Purist this would have been inexcusable, but, as a 
matter of fact, it was beautiful in effect, because the 
similarity of colors made the Chippendale chair pleasing 
while uniformity of line was responsible for the con- 
sonance of the Hepplewhite piece, and both lent dis- 
tinction to the whole because they relieved the scheme 
of deadly sameness in line and color. 
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There is a drawer revealed when the fourth leg of this adapted 
Adams console table is drawn out to support the folding top 
for cards or tea. Price $30.00 
Thus it may be said that different types may be com- 
bined most delightfully if thedifferent articles have some 
salient point in common. 
Of the several good looking pieces pictured on this 
page, there are two pieces that are cater-cousins, so to 
speak, in points of resemblance. The teak wood tele- 
phone stand might very nicely be used in the same hall 
with the folding top mahogany table of adapted Adam’s 
type designed for console use, because of their dark 
color and severe straight lines. It should be added 
here that an oblong vertical mirror of mahogany of the 
same type is necessary to complete the good looks of the 
console table. The brass vase shown costs $5.00. 
Apropos of mirrors, the antique gilt one illustrated 
here is an exceptionally fine one and is at its price of $50 
a great bargain to some one looking for such a piece to 
use with their early American treasures. It is in good 
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condition and 
will not long be 
awaiting an ap- 
preciative own- 
er. Not less 
interesting, if 
not old, are the 
arm chairs 
shown on this 
page, the one at 
the left being 
covered with a 
rich colored 
wool tapestry, 
while the other 
is upholstered 
with cretonne. 
Both are excel- 
lent living room 
pieces, though 
the last named 
required a spe- 
cial setting to 
show off its —_ 
type effectively. | . : oe 
A good deal Here is a great bargain at $50.00 for some 
might be said appreciative lover | Oey American 
about the selec- 4 
tion of chairs for the living rooms of the house. We 
allow ourselves too little leeway in this respect. A 
lounge, a wing chair, a stuffed one, and one or two prim 
looking side chairs compose the list of seats in the 
average livingroom. The only reason for this condition 
is our hesitancy in departing from the usual, a fault 
that is easily corrected. 
| Zsa Baer eee Papen 
Stability without clumsiness is expressed in this comfortable 
chair that is especially good for writing or smoking rooms of 
the new art type 
