The Garden Magazine, June, 1921 
241 
WHERE SUMMER HAS BEEN BROUGHT INDOORS 
Jessie Tarbox Beals , Photo- 
Skilfully placed mirrors reiterate the informal garden motifs of chair and wall-coverings, and each window plant-stand holds a tiny garden of 
Ferns and similar delicate greenery. Vases of Iris on the mantel furnish a fitting, final accent to this pleasing room decorated by Miss Swift 
plum colored velvet) and the blue pad and pillows of the daybed 
are clad for the summer in unglazed chintz of the same pattern 
as the shades. The piano is fitted with a slip covering of dark 
turquoise blue material which is also occasionally introduced 
elsewhere. 
The hotels have been quick to appreciate the possibilities of 
such covers and use them for the dual purpose of protecting 
heavy winter upholstery from dust and of making their rooms 
look cool and attractive during the summer heat; many a tea- 
room is rendered inviting by the simple artifice of covering the 
backs of the chairs with gay chintz slips. 
In one of the smartest New York Hotels is found a happily 
designed linen showing bright-plumaged aquatic birds disporting 
themselves amid pink tipped Water-lilies 
with pads of blue and soft jade green. 
The green of the Water-lily leaf is em- 
phasized by painted reed chairs of the 
same tint, making a deliciously cool and 
refreshing total effect. 
The English have a most delightful ma- 
terial that has been growing in favor with 
us — the glazed chintz, which may be had in a 
very stiff or semi-glaze finish. This sheds 
dust and dirt admirably, but in time the 
glazed surf ace wrinkles and wears off. This is 
the chief reason why it is not more prevalently 
used, for unfortunately until quite recently 
there has been no satisfactory means of re- 
calendaring the material developed in this 
country. One of the leading importers of 
this sort of material has lately brought in 
machinery and expert workmen for this pro- 
cess; so it is expected we may soon develop 
here the industry already general in England. 
Whatever legitimate objection there may still be to using 
glazed chintz on chairs, sofas, and similar furniture, it is highly 
satisfactory for tables and other flat surfaces and especially 
suitable for roller shades. Such shades require no over curtains 
at all, if a shallow valance, either pleated or shaped, is used to 
cover the roller, and the bottom of the shade is finished with 
a scalloped apron. If both valance and apron are bound with a 
contrasting color, the result is a finished and pleasing window. 
Several purposes are thus simultaneously served, for the chintz 
is heavy enough to keep out brilliant sun and at the same time 
avoids the depressing effect of the ordinary dark holland shade, 
being as decorative in its way as a stained glass window. Again 
it gives a sense of space and feeling of outdoors, always desirable, 
and to the city dweller doubly precious. 
The unglazed English and French 
designs have, of course, come to be very 
familiar to us, but there are in the market 
copies of very charming old Italian de- 
signs, as well as particularly fine Spanish 
and Portuguese chintzes in the original. 
These latter conform more or less to one 
general plan of design; alternating broad 
blue and white, or buff and white stripes 
with a conventional floral, or floral and bird 
design in red on the colored stripe with 
smaller scale flowers, also in red and browns, 
scattered through the white stripe. All of 
these are particularly effective — the newer 
ones being a bit strong in color for indis- 
criminate use, the more faded ones having 
particular charm. While they are not as 
serviceable for covering furniture that is to 
be subjected to hard wear as some of the 
newer and more durable chintzes, they com- 
WROUGHT- 1 RON BRAZIER 
OF SUITABLE TYPE 
It is not difficult to imagine the charm of 
this brazier when filled with Fuchsia, Vinca, 
or whatever pleases the individual fancy 
and suits the room in which it is to stand 
