A reception room treatment that 
shows the skill in hanging 
The upper section of a panel showing a paper that is produced in 
various tones of bronze that do not tarnish 
There are printed linens to match 
a frieze or cut-out border 
T O the old mural decorators who 
laboriously traced out their work 
by hand, we owe the inspiration which 
today is so splendidly expressed in the 
finer wall-papers. Putting aside con¬ 
siderations of permanency and looking only at the artistic results, 
one must concede that there is little loss of beauty and great gain 
in economy by the modern way. And there is practically no 
limit to *the range of these modern wall-paper creations, they 
are architectural; they are pastoral and scenic; they are historic, 
periodic and national; and they are skillfully imitative of leathers, 
fabrics and even metals and ceramics. One can choose between 
the unconventionality of Nature itself or the strict precision of 
monastic illumination. Every color and the finest of color is 
brought to perfection; and even the absence of color, that is to 
say black, appears in form as pleasing as it is surprising. In a 
word, one can make his interior walls respond absolutely to his 
will; and if he cannot live in a palace, his surroundings may be at 
least palatial. Nor is the expense nec¬ 
essarily in proportion to the richness of 
the effect; because in the last analysis the 
achievement depends upon the taste and 
skill with which papers are selected and 
applied. 
Reference has been made to the black 
papers. These are the great outstanding 
Photographs of rooms by courtesy of the paper 
manufacturers 
novelties. The black is used as a body 
or background to the design, as white 
has been used heretofore. The super¬ 
imposed pattern imparts the necessary 
glow of color and light. The figure 
shines out something like a diamond on a black gown. Further 
light is imparted by the use of such papers in panels, where the 
surrounding treatment can be as bright as desired. And bright 
draperies are essential in all cases. Of the three examples shown, 
one presents an interesting Chinese Chippendale pattern; another 
a soft-toned tapestry; while the third created a sensation at the 
recent wall-paper exhibit at Hamburg, where we understand it 
received a first prize. 
The nations are attractively represented in characteristic de¬ 
signs. Anyone familiar with Portuguese decoration will at once 
recognize the scroll in the specimen illustrated. Particularly 
admirable are the graceful perfection of detail and the exquisite 
coloring. The greens, blues, reds, mauves, browns, etc., are a 
delight to behold. Special interest at¬ 
taches to the simple Dutch paper. It 
bears the name of Queen Wilhelmina, 
for whom it was first made. The tones 
adopted by her majesty were Delft blue 
with miniature roses sprinkled between 
the stripes, the rose being the national 
flower. In this country it comes in vari- 
Two bedroom papers — a Directoire design 
in mulberry and white on old blue ground, 
below which is a Louis XVI pattern 
There is something startling about this vig¬ 
orous Jacobean pattern and its quaint 
detail. It needs to be carefully handled 
The Portuguese paper with its characteristic 
scroll work and a bedroom paper originally 
made for Queen Wilhelmina 
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