The Garden Magazine, June, 1921 
243 
G. IV. Hurting , Photo. 
HOW ONE NEW YORKER SOLVES THE PROBLEM 
A little balcony, shaded and ivy-draped, makes hot summer days endurable and keeps alive in the heart of the city 
a tiny, refreshing spark of the garden spirit. Residence of Mr. R. Evans, Washington Place, New York City 
nothing is so effective for giving certain rooms a breadth and 
depth quite incommensurate with their actual size. In the re- 
action against the formality and somberness of the Victorian 
era, with its layers upon layers of heavy curtains, “space” has 
come into its own! Its importance as one of the requisite 
factors in all really satisfying interior decoration is now fully 
recognized. The decorator has to be a sort of magician — if 
there is insufficient space he must create some, he must learn 
skilfully to bend varying materials to the successful execution of 
illusion. It offers many rather fascinating problems to be met 
and mastered. Everything possible must be done to produce a 
feeling of space, airiness, and sunlight. 
Whenever it is not advisable to cover an entire room with 
landscape or floral wall-paper the wall space can be interestingly 
broken by using it panel-wise. Then, too, there are always 
paintings of landscapes and tapestries with which we may choose 
instead to hang our walls. We have all the world to draw from 
— the gardens of Persia and the Orient in our rugs and of Europe 
in our tapestries and needlework; the potteries, tiles, and glass of 
many nations at our disposal. Truly, no matter what the 
season or how high the city walls we can each create our own 
bit of indoor garden to fill the rooms in which we live with 
fragrance, colorful beauty and the joyous, healthful spirit of 
out-of-doors. 
PORTUGUESE 
CHINTZ 
One of the newer 
glazed chintzes from 
Portugal which are 
rapidly finding favor 
(on left) 
GLAZED CHINTZ 
IN PATTERN REM- 
INISCENT OF THE 
OLD ENGLISH 
Even in so quaintly 
conventional a pattern 
such garden favorites 
as the Rose and Prim- 
rose are still in evi- 
dence. This chintz 
may be had in several 
colors 
