HOUSE AND GARDEN 
October, 1913 
than 2^2" to 3 y A ", the circulation of the air is impeded and the 
effectiveness of the heat diminished. 
Care must also be taken that the mantle does not interfere with 
the handling of the regulating valves and does not hinder the 
cleaning of the radiator. It must therefore consist of easily 
opened doors sufficiently wide to come over all 
sides of the radiator, or of a curtain which can be 
gathered together, when it is not fastened by hooks 
to a movable bar which may be swung out like a 
door. The last arrangement is most advantageous, 
as polished brass plates become tarnished and un¬ 
attractive when rubbed together. 
The illustration in the center of page 214 shows 
the covering of a radiator, built in the window 
niche of an ante-room. Here the marble slab of 
the window sill is not perforated, since the large 
opening's at the floor and above the doors provides 
for the circulation of sufficient air. The doors of 
stamped sheet brass set in lattice frames of white 
enameled wood are large enough for the radiators 
to be conveniently cleaned from all sides. This is 
a model of a simple, practical and attractive cover¬ 
ing. In the dining-room on top of page 214 
(right) are radiators filling up the entire window 
miche, hidden behind doors with wide-meshed lat¬ 
tice work. The openings in the covering are so 
large that a sufficient circulation of air is assured. 
The two illustrations in the left-hand lower part 
of page 213 show radiators which have been built 
in, yet not a window niche, but behind the paneling 
in the lower part of cabinet. Here. also, care has 
Teen taken that suffi¬ 
cient air should reach 
the radiator from be¬ 
low and pour into the 
room through the 
■doors ornamented 
with sheet brass. A 
.similar example is 
shown in the picture 
at the upper right- 
hand corner of the 
same page, which is 
the cover of a radia¬ 
tor standing free. 
Both the sheet iron 
doors of decorated 
lattice work open for 
the whole width of 
the radiator, an im¬ 
portant point in clean¬ 
ing. 
Curtains of ham¬ 
mered brass or small 
iron plates have been 
for some years in 
vogue. They are an 
idea of Professor 
Richard Riemer- 
schmid, who first used 
this style of covering 
and tried it out. The 
metal industry soon took up this good idea, but it got into dis¬ 
credit through the attempt to attain cheap prices. Such pendants 
■must be very carefully made, or otherwise the thin chains upon 
which the metal leaves hang easily give out with usage and the 
-strands hang crooked, which is undesirable. A good type of this 
form of radiator cover is shown on page 214 (left), where 
wooden globes are strung together and hung in a simple enameled 
frame. 
Bead chains appear in the extreme left-hand corner of page 212. 
Here the marble slab rests on a perforated brass cornice, the for¬ 
ward part of which slips down for the whole width 
of the radiator, so that it is easy to reach the regu¬ 
lating valve. The lady’s room shown on page 
213 (right) is fitted with a radiator curtain to the 
chains of which are attached white and red wooden 
beads. These are hooked to a rod divided in the 
center and maintained there by clamps. Both 
sides of the curtain swing outward when unfas¬ 
tened to afford access to the radiator. 
In many cases it will be found advisable to finish 
off the radiator cover with a lattice work of wood to 
match the furniture of the room, in order to reflect 
better its sti le. A particularly good example of this 
is furnished by the left-hand illustration at the head 
of page 213, the heater covering in a bedroom dec¬ 
orated in mahogany. The front wall is formed of 
three large doors resting on balls, and consists of 
a lattice work of fiat and round bars. The side 
walls are also latticed, so that the air can come and 
go from all sides. The latticed cover is so large 
that the radiator scarcely fills two-thirds of the 
space within it, and is permanently surrounded by 
much air, its attendance and cleaning being in no 
way impeded. The upper photograph on this page 
shows an equally practical covering of lattice work 
for a radiator in the corner of the room. The per¬ 
pendicular bars of the 
double doors are dec¬ 
orated by an attrac¬ 
tive scrollwork of thin 
wood. 
The lattice frame¬ 
work decorated with 
a carved wood gar¬ 
land shown in the 
third illustration from 
the left at the bottom 
of page 212 encloses 
a radiator which is 
placed in the semi¬ 
open wall, dividing 
two reception rooms, 
and is closed on the 
other side with a sim¬ 
ilar lattice work. The 
cool air, coming 
abundantly from the 
opening on the floor, 
may rise on both sides 
of the radiator and 
then stream into both 
rooms. This plan is 
in this case not pro¬ 
ductive of injury, as 
the wall over the mar¬ 
ble slab is cut through 
up to the ceiling, and 
thus there is no surface on which to receive the particles of dust 
which would settle in the form of black stripes. 
Nine-tentbs of the urban population of Germany live in hired 
dwellings. In the best quarters, since the last ten years, these are 
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This radiator screen is 
adaptable to room corners 
There is a good example here of how the radiator may be so placed that when covered 
it is a decorative unit. The screen of wrought brass is an example of the best German 
work. As there is polished marble above the radiator no dust can settle 
