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House Garden 
TRANSFORMING THE PIANO 
The piayio is a difficult object to place properly 
in a room. For acoustic reasons it should be 
close to a wall. Further than this, beauty must be 
found in the case and in the surroundings. In 
the London drawing room of Mrs. Somerset 
Maugham the problem is particularly well 
solved. The long perpendicular lines of the 
Chinese painting correct the horizontal squatti¬ 
ness of the piayio. Another interestin'» feature is 
the treatiyieyit of the piayio itself. The case is 
lacquered black with gilded decoratioyis ayid the 
interior of the lid is scarlet, the trestles gold. 
