April, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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Fig. 7 



Design for Divan Cover or Floor Mat 

 (Alaska Indians) 



Fig. 8 



Design for Divan Cover or Floor Mat 

 (Alaska Indians) 



Fig. g 



Design for Divan Bolster 

 (Navajo Indians) 



designs for stencil work based on Indian models. Their 

 adaptability as well as real interest should be apparent at a 

 glance. They combine, in a marked degree, distinguishing 

 characteristics of beauty and novelty. The latter is an impor- 

 tant element often desired in decorative work of this sort, and 



not often so well supplied as here. While each of the designs 

 here illustrated has been actually employed in stencil work, 

 they are offered more as types of what might be accom- 

 plished than as definite suggestions. They obviously point 

 the way to much individual ingenuity. 



Fig. 10 



Design for Border on Portieres, Lambre- 

 quins or Frieze for Wall 

 (Mexican Indians) 



Fig. 1 1 



Design for Border on Portieres, Lambre- 

 quins or Frieze for Wall 



Fig. 12 



Design for Border on Portieres, Lambre- 

 quins or Frieze for Wall 

 (Zuni Indians) 



Fig. 7. — Color Scheme. — (1) Brown madder; (2) Van Dyke brown (alter- 

 nate on both sides) ; (3) white; (4) indigo; (5) light cerulean blue. 

 Repeat same scheme on both sides. 



Fig. 8. — Color Scheme. — (1) Buff — mix yellow ochre and Van Dyke 

 brown; (2) indigo; (3) deep vermilion; (4) white. 



Fig. 9. — Color Scheme. — (1) Buff; (2) black; (3-4) French gray — mix 

 Paynes gray and cerulean blue; (5) terra cotta — mix vermilion, In- 

 dian red and Van Dyke brown; (6) Van Dyke brown. Outline all 

 stripes with black, leaving narrow white stripe between. Alternate 

 colors of stripes in regular order. 



Fig. 10. — Color Scheme. — (1) Tan — mix yellow ochre and burnt umber; 

 (2) black; (3) dark Indian red — mix Indian red with Van Dyke 

 brown; (4) white. Narrow lines, black. 



Fig. ii. — Color Scheme. — (1) Light indigo; (2) deep indigo; (3) emerald 

 green; (4) white; (5) black; (6) pink. 



Fig. 12. — Color Scheme. — (1) Fawn — mix Paynes gray yellow ochre and 

 a little crimson lake; (2) light cadmium — vary to flesh color — mix 

 yellow ochre and rose madder; (3) cerulean blue; (4) deep indigo. 

 Narrow lines, deep indigo. 



The Country Seat of Frederick Converse Beach, Esq., at Stratford, Connecticut 



(Continued from Page 141) 



suspended on ribbon hangings. The adjoining guest room 

 is finished in lavender, with a wall covering in gray, decorated 

 with lavender Iris. Miss Beach's room is in two-tone pink 

 satin stripped with a border in pink roses. The owner's room 

 has a wall covering in a Dresden stripped paper of green, 

 pink and blue-yellow. All the woodwork is painted ivory- 

 white. 



The third floor contains two servants' bedrooms and bath, 

 one extra guest room, den and dark-room. Stairs lead to the 

 attic, forming an ample space for storage. The house is 

 thoroughly equipped with a telephone system from the 

 kitchen to all the rooms, electric lighting system supplied 

 by a private plant, and a steam heating apparatus with an in- 

 direct system for the first floor. The electric fixtures in the 

 hall, drawing-room and library, as well as the side brackets 

 throughout, were made from a special design, and repre- 



sent the old-fashioned girandoles with crystal prisms and sus- 

 pending chains. The dining-room has a dome of green silk, 

 suspended with green silk cord and ornaments. The fixture in 

 the sun-room represents a hanging group of Ascension lilies. 



While the estate had many fine old trees and shrubs, it 

 required some planting which was necessary to soften the 

 lines of the building, which was done under the direction 

 of Charles Downing Lay, landscape architect, of New 

 York City. 



It is interesting to note that the property upon which this 

 house is built was an original allotment of land to the an- 

 cestor of the wife of the present owner, William Beardsley, 

 who came from Stratford-on-Avon, England, in the good 

 ship "Planter," in 1635. It is to William Beardsley and his 

 company, who came from the home of Shakespeare, that it 

 owes its name of Stratford 



