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House & Garden 
FORTY -FIVE SECONDS FROM BROADWAY 
A Cottage in a New York Flat — The Apartment 
of Louis Fancher, Esq., the Illustrator 
Photographs by the Johnston-Hewitt Studios 
Ahaz, the Inky Ethiopian, takes you up in 
the iron cage to the tenth floor, deposits 
you in a hleak hall before a fireproof door. 
You ring the bell. The door opens. And 
you step into the jolliest little cottage this 
side o' Devon. Above is one end of the 
big studio that serves as the dining-, 
painting-, and living-room. The walls are 
golden grass cloth and the ceiling is 
golden too. The furniture, simple fumed 
oak and loicker, fits well into the scheme 
On the top of the page opposite is the 
other end of the studio. A big. over¬ 
stuffed davenport in blue fills one end. 
Bizarre pillows are stacked on it. Above 
is a semi-circular mirror in a blue frame. 
The sconces at either .side are blue 
touched with orange. The little table to the 
left has an orange tray on a blue frame. 
Golden orange and true blue is the per¬ 
vading combination. The rug has a deep 
pile in a rich golden tone. The color 
effects are interesting and restful. The 
room has the advantage of large spaces 
Because it had to serve a twenty-four hour 
purpose, the utilitarian objects were so 
arranged as to be both compact and con¬ 
venient. Between meals the sideboard 
dresses ranks with orange and blue 
candlesticks and an orange tray, and looks 
perfectly in place. In the hall is a built- 
in cabinet to hold the family jewels, Mr. 
Fancher’s scraps of paper and tubes of 
paint, together with sundry overshoes, um¬ 
brellas. hats and dinner jackets, all neatly 
arranged and decoratively concealed 
The photograph directly opposite shows 
the artist as carpenter and his wife as 
painter. (Mr. Fancher wielded the ham¬ 
mer and Mrs. Fancher the paint brush — 
she being also the designer of these deco¬ 
rations.) The white shelves with their 
Breton pottery connect up with the ^vhite 
woodwork of the room. The curtains are 
blue calico with orange fringe. Two little 
love birds (see the blur) perch on a rod 
above the shelves. If you despair of 
making that ghastly flat livable, here is 
one way of doing it—love birds and all 
