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House & Garden 
Do You Dare to Use Brilliant Color? 
lilustraiion Jrom April House & Garden 
Do you understand harmony hy proportion? 
By tone? By lighting? 
W ould you have the courage to put a brilliant 
blue Chinese jar against a soft grey wall on a 
table of black and red lacquer? 
Would you dare to use black moire walls, black 
velvet hangings, black teakwood furniture, and 
three odd-shaped brilliant orange cushions on 
black velvet davenports, to set off your own 
fair coloring? 
If you love color, but are timid about using 
it in your home, you should consult the 
Interior Decoration 
Number 
APRIL 
iiouse^Gard 
en 
The distinctive note of modern interior dec¬ 
oration is the judicious use of brilliant color. 
This issue of House & Garden shows you how 
to get daring effects successfully; how to apply 
modernist principles to practical use; how to 
choose the right papers, hangings, and furni¬ 
ture, and how to group them successfully. 
There is also a generous amount of garden ad¬ 
vice for the April garden-maker, and several 
pages of house building helps. 
If you have furnishing and decoration problems to meet this spring, be sure to 
reserve a copy of this Interior Decoration Number at your usual newsstand now 
25 cents a copy 
$3 a year 
