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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



January, 1908 



These are very beautiful when the light filters through them, and most of the new French shades make use of it in some 

 and at first it is difficult to realize of what they consist. A form or other, while niching for ladies' dresses is also 

 good linen lace is usually made use of, as a poor quality used on some instead of silk trimming. The fluted shade on 





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9 — Some New French Candle Shades 



I — A Novelty in Shades 



looks tawdry. Such a shade could be easily made by an 

 amateur; the frames for the shades are supplied by lamp 

 stores, and when the wires are covered with cheesecloth it 

 is very easy to sew the materials on them. 



Some novelties just arrived from France are shown in 

 silk and paper shades in the group of five (No. 9). Four 

 of these show the introduction of ribbon embroidery. The 

 kind of ribbon used on these resembles the coronation braid, 



the table is of heavy corded silk, and a design in water color 

 is painted on it before the silk is fluted. 



There is a wide field for amateurs making lamp and 

 candle shades and a good income awaiting the brainy girl 

 who can evolve something really original like the above- 

 mentioned candle shade. The illustration gives no idea of 

 the beautiful color effect, which in the case of every good 

 shade gives the final note of beauty and interest. 



"The Pines," the House of Philip S. Sears, Esq., Prides Crossing, Massachusetts 



(Continued from page g) 



vidual in form. The wainscot adjoining is continued on one 

 side to a closet with glazed doors. The color of the room 

 is given by the rug and the window curtains. The former 

 is deep blue; the latter of light blue watered silk, lined with 

 white, with white sash curtains. From these rooms one may 

 reach the porch situated on the terrace or inner front of the 

 house. It is rectangular in form, supported by stucco columns, 

 yellow like the walls, with narrow rim-like white capitals. 

 It is furnished as an outdoor living-room, the edges being 

 projected by awnings. It stands in the midst of a grassed 

 terrace, and contained within a low stone retaining wall, be- 

 low which is a cleared space, and then the forest, growing 

 beyond lofty rocks. 



The terrace front of the house is designed with even 

 greater simplicity than the entrance front. The center pro- 

 jects quite far forward, while the ends are apparently as 

 much recessed. The porch is the chief feature here, and a 

 very necessary one for a house built in the woods. A third 

 story is added, by means of three dormers, in the central 

 building. 



Below the library door is a flower garden, a garden too 

 irregular to be termed formal, yet arranged in a formal man- 

 ner. That is to say, the flower beds are given definite shape 

 and form, bordered with brick. Its limits are defined by a 

 huge rock and by a rustic fence beyond which stand great 

 pine trees of the primeval forest. 



But one does not need a flower garden to give beauty to 

 the house, albeit so charming an addition detracts nothing 

 from it. It is a house well able to stand alone, although de- 

 signed for this precise spot, and of a form and coloring 

 nowhere else yielding such delightful results. This, in truth, 

 is its exceeding merit: that every aspect of it is interesting. 

 Every part of it counts in the final result, because such a re- 

 sult was anticipated from the beginning. Yet, after all, its 

 loveliness is the greater because hidden in the midst of these 

 Massachusetts woods, watched perpetually by the pine trees 

 that have given their name to it. 



The quiet gentleness of the woods has been well matched 

 by the simple repose of the dwelling. It fits into its sur- 

 roundings and belongs with them. 



