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House & Garden 
desires to announce his readiness 
to prepare for clients, studies in 
the Gothic, the Renaissance, the 
English and French periods, and 
the 
from the modern standpoint, 
which aims to make these designs 
unique expressions of the per¬ 
sonalities of those who are to use 
them. 
This can be done in garden chairs 
and tables, pillows, porch lamps and 
shades as well as in complete interiors. 
lOIECJOHS.^TOIR.© 
Tf (D R R 
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MRTsest Of PMca 
After many centuries of dig'nified and unchallenged 
supremacy, OAK, “The Pride of the Permanent 
Home,” remains today the world’s premier hard¬ 
wood. (And everybody knows it.) OAK is the 
first hardwood you naturally think of, and the last 
for which you will ever relinquish your inherited 
preference. It is “a natural heirloom wood.” 
GOOD OAK FURNITURE 
justifies a keen search, critical insistence and a 
special order if need be. Why accept alternatives? 
THE AMERICAN OAK MFRS. ASSN. 
know the whj’S and hows of Oak. Ask 
them any sort of questions. Please address 
Room 1414, 14 Main Street. 
Memphis, Tenn. 
What Is Modern Decoration ^ 
{Continued from page 20) 
red or bright green in itself, 
if the thought behind its use 
is big enough to carry it. The 
trouble with our very good 
V’ictorians was that they 
didn’t believe in thinking. 
When they wanted to be 
clever, they turned a Co¬ 
rinthian column upside down 
and stuck it in front of a 
brown stone house, or slapped 
a few red pillows on a green 
sofa and let it go at that. 
Afr. Chamberlin Dodds is 
another whom I should in¬ 
clude among the moderns, al¬ 
though he will probably sub¬ 
poena me for doing so, be¬ 
cause although he employs 
the historic styles extensively, 
he does so with a humorous 
personal twist, and with such 
resplendent color as to signal¬ 
ize him as one of the most 
Can hathrooms he made in¬ 
teresting? Certainly, if they 
have black and gold base¬ 
boards and basins 
brilliant of the younger men. 
Air. Paul Frankl, an archi¬ 
tect from Germany, is strong¬ 
ly imbued with the continental 
art of the secession, but his 
designs are, in a measure, 
personal, and must therefore 
become more and more im¬ 
pressed w'ith the growing 
American spirit. 
In a certain sense the in¬ 
terior work of Air. Anton 
Heilman, and especially the 
idea behind his wmrk, is 
typical of a rather large 
group of more or less modern 
{Continued on page 94) 
Herts, Decorators 
The other end of the den on page 
20. Woodwork is black, walls dull 
orange and cicrtains of figured linen 
An entrance hall with black 
and gold pain ted columns, old 
iron gates, andvelvet curtains 
Chamberlin Dodds, Decorator 
