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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



November, 1905 



Guggenheim's boudoir, is given up to bedrooms and bath- 

 rooms. These are arranged en suite. The family rooms 

 are on the garden front; the guest rooms at the end and on 

 the entrance front. The bathrooms are tiled throughout, 

 both floor and walls, and are equipped with porcelain tubs 

 and bowls and nickelplated exposed plumbing of the best 

 type. 



The bedrooms are thoroughly charming, very delightfully 

 varied in coloring and in furnishing, giving fine individuality 

 to each room. The scale of colors is very delicate and soft. 

 One large bedroom is paneled throughout with wood painted 

 white. On the floor is a greenish rug; the furniture is green 

 and white, the mantel of blue marble, with a built-in mirror 

 over it. 



pink, covered with a plaited netting. A small study adjoins 

 this room and is finished in blue; the furniture is wicker. An- 

 other bedroom is green, another mauve; here the wall paper 

 has a delicate diaper, with ribbon borders of mauve top and 

 bottom. Steel-gray, light blue and green again complete the 

 colors used for the decorations of these charming bedrooms. 

 With the exception of the paneled room the decorative sys- 

 tem is identical: a wainscot of wood painted white, with the 

 upper walls covered with paper in harmony with the scheme 

 selected. The wall papers are without friezes or borders, 

 except some narrow bands or ribbons which transform whole 

 sides of the room into large panels or otherwise give a 

 moderate note of color. The furniture of each room has 

 been well matched and especially prepared for it. The 



The Terrace Overlooking the Garden 



Immediately adjoining is Mrs. Guggenheim's boudoir, 

 which occupies the center of the second floor, overlooking the 

 garden. It is an exquisite room, wholly in white, and ex- 

 traordinarily bright and light. It is circular in form, the 

 triangular corners being included within the room space by 

 doorless openings — an interesting utilization of space other- 

 wise wasted. The walls are paneled throughout with wood 

 and with mirrors. The carpet is fawn color, with a green 

 and red border, the same colors reappearing in the furniture 

 coverings. The central chandelier is a graceful conceit of 

 a basket of flowers. 



The next bedroom is pink. The carpet is similar to that 

 on the boudoir floor, as is the furniture also, with the colors a 

 little more pronounced. The walls above the wainscot are 



central part of the upper story is filled with a spacious cor- 

 ridor, from which the various rooms open. 



Great estates are not characteristic of the summer homes 

 in the vicinity of Long Branch. Mr. Guggenheim's prop- 

 erty can not be described as large, yet it is completely ample 

 for his superb house. It is surrounded with streets on three 

 sides, but has been placed rather near the street on which the 

 entrance front abuts, a situation that gives space for con- 

 siderable garden and lawn on the other side, exactly where 

 it is most wanted, not alone because this is the garden front, 

 but because one side of the house must be more or less ex- 

 posed, and the exposure here is so retreated behind trees 

 and space that the private parts of the house are still private, 



