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HOUSE & GARDEN 
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Furniture and Its Architectural Background 
{Continued from page 29) 
The third principle, correspondence 
or contrasting harmony of color, we 
may discuss with the same back¬ 
ground. The furniture of the Stuart 
period was chiefly made of oak and, 
as it corresponded in contour and 
decorative treatment with the wood¬ 
work of its setting, so, also, did it cor¬ 
respond in color. The similarity in 
all points was so obvious that it may 
truly be said that much of the furni¬ 
ture was merely movable architecture. 
If some of the oak panelling was new 
and light and some of the oak furni¬ 
ture set against it was old and dark, 
there was, nevertheless, enough basic 
resemblance of coloration to assure 
harmony. Suppose, however, that an 
Empire sideboard, with its artificially 
reddened mahogany, is put in an oak- 
panelled room. There is a revolting 
color clash at once. The combination 
of oak and mahogany is almost in¬ 
variably unpleasant, whether it be in 
the lounge of a trans-Atlantic liner 
or in some of the early 18th Century 
oak furniture inlaid with mahogany. 
In the latter case the experiment was 
tried, but comparatively few pieces 
with this combination of woods were 
made, partly, perhaps, because of the 
inconvenience of using oak as a base 
for inlay, but mainly, no doubt, be¬ 
cause-the combination did not com¬ 
mend itself to good taste. 
Oak and mahogany have too much 
in common to give an agreeable con¬ 
trast and not enough in common to 
make them pleasant in company. A 
black or very dark wood is far better 
with oak if a contrast is aimed at. 
Experience has also shown that the 
light, yellowish burr walnut furniture 
of the late 17th Century and early 
18th Century accords quite admir¬ 
ably with an oak background. 
We have seen that mahogany furni¬ 
ture does not make a happy combina¬ 
tion with a panelled oak architectural 
setting, a setting that is, to be sure, 
somewhat exacting. One must men¬ 
tion, however, a few things that 
might satisfactorily be used; many an 
old Italian cassone or many a Spanish 
cabinet on a high stand could be em¬ 
ployed to admirable purpose in a Stu¬ 
art wainscotted room. Then there 
are old French oaken chests and sun¬ 
dry other old French pieces of simple 
lines, besides occasional early Flem¬ 
ish and Dutch articles, all of which 
display either kindred or harmoni¬ 
ously contrasting characteristics to 
those of the background. They are 
simple and direct in contour, rectan¬ 
gular in mass and accord with the 
horizontal emphasis of the room. In 
addition to the sorts of pieces just 
mentioned, there are always varied 
resources in upholstered furniture. 
It is always a mistake to crowd a 
room, but doubly so to crowd a room 
of the kind under consideration, be¬ 
cause it has so many physical features 
that are highly decorative in them¬ 
selves—the panelled walls, the carved 
and, perhaps, painted overmantel, the 
beamed or parge work ceiling and the 
mullioned leaded casement windows. 
All these need space to be seen to ad¬ 
vantage, and too much furniture 
hopelessly obscures and detracts from 
them. It is also a mistake to have too 
many pictures in such a room. Let 
them be fairly large and dignified, 
preferably portraits or decorative sub¬ 
jects in old Flemish or Dutch style. 
Avoid modern landscapes in brilliant 
frames. Tapestries, especially either 
the Gothic or the later verdure tapes¬ 
tries, will always he in place. There 
is a good opportunity, too, to work in 
vigorous color in upholstery stuffs and 
hangings, especially if some of the cut 
pile velvets, brocades and printed lin¬ 
ens of the 17th and early 18th Cen¬ 
tury patterns and hues be used. An 
oak-panelled room not only can stand, 
but needs some bright color, and the 
darker the oak the more it requires 
good strong color to liven up the com¬ 
position and lend it variety. 
An Amateur s Garden in a Shady Place 
(Continued from page 42) 
all, and they bloomed beautifully. 
Bleeding heart is another old-fash¬ 
ioned treasure that grows and blooms 
in the shade. Then for smaller things, 
lilies-of-the-valley, Anemone japonica, 
pansies, English daisies, forget-me- 
nots ( myosotis ), Spanish iris (don’t 
omit these, they are as beautiful as 
orchids), plantain lilies, Anthony 
Waterer spireas, dusty miller, and 
most of the better known lilies. 
Rose bushes will bloom beautifully 
in semi-shade—these are facts from 
experience. The books recommend 
schizanthus, but my attempts with 
them have failed so far. 
There is one spot under my trees 
where the rain beats down with tre¬ 
mendous force, and I was at first un¬ 
able to keep anything green there; 
even grass refused to grow. Finally 
I got a blue flowered vine in a meadow 
—>a weed, but it has a pretty round 
serrated leaf—and some common 
buttercups. These brighten the spot 
and grow so fast 1 have to keep them 
trimmed back within bounds. 
1 haven’t mentioned snapdragons, 
scarlet sage, begonias and tansy; the 
last is certainly old-fashioned, but its 
leaves are like beautiful ferns. Hardy 
chrysanthemums did their very best 
in my conditions, but I watered and 
cultivated them conscientiously. I’m 
only telling of my successes; my fail¬ 
ures were plentiful and most discour¬ 
aging, for my tastes seemed to run 
to flowers that love the sun. 
I found that it takes several years 
to make a garden effective and one 
must study it every day and night, 
too, to improve it. While the flowers 
are blooming in summer one can make 
the best plans for next year’s garden 
—the arrangement as to height and 
color and the best place for growing 
can all be put in a book to refresh 
the mind in the late winter and early 
spring when the garden plans and 
plantings are being started. 
Of Fountains Here 
(Continued from page 31) 
we would do well to learn the art of 
“taking the air” as it should be taken. 
Hitherto how stupidly have we gone 
on our ways, cooling ourselves of a 
hot noontide by the reflection that to¬ 
morrow week will be cold,—and keep¬ 
ing indoors because forsooth all our 
interests are there, to say nothing of 
our bodily conveniences. 
Out-of-door living—gardening—- 
fountaining—these arts that follow 
upon each other as the night the day 
and the day the night. It is the sheer¬ 
est reasonableness, not affectation, 
that rouses our interest in them. Nor 
is such an interest liable to satiety; 
rather the taste for these things grows 
continually by what it feeds on. 
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Buffalo, New York 
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