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House & Garden 
A New York room in pure Viennese style. Furniture and 
decorations by Urban. The wall paper by Pechi and the 
silver tea sets are by Hofmann 
Modern French and Viennese Decoration 
(Continued from page 37) 
are huge armchairs in pale tea color 
enamel, with broad bands of silver scroll 
work as an ornament and upholstered 
in Pechi silk, shaded stripes of blue, 
mauve, rose, gray and black. On the lit¬ 
tle side tables, which match the chairs, 
are rich sets of silver designed by Hof¬ 
mann. The forms are embossed floral 
shapes finished with rare ivory in one 
case, and in the other jade. The wall 
panels are white, each one serving as a 
frame for a print of some rare painting 
by Klimpt. 
In the second Viennese room the up¬ 
per wall is of silk with showy bouton¬ 
nieres in brilliant colors on black ground. 
The hanging lights are crystal and an 
elaborately planned door is in black and 
white. The furniture, Urban’s design, 
has black frames with curved high 
backs, upholstered in a cool but brilliant 
green, with a passementerie of green and 
silver, and silver beads in a tiny frieze at 
the back. The long black table is de¬ 
signed with flower stands at each end, 
birch treated in a simple but effective 
method of Urban’s to attain dull black. 
Some of the finest of the Viennese crafts 
are shown in this room, tall fluted vases 
of silver, laces designed in true Secession 
spirit, large and small porcelain figures, 
single and in groups. The only hint of 
the influence of bygone days is in the 
archaic handling of the porcelain. 
We were fortunate in securing pictures 
of modern French rooms decorated by 
Sue et Mare, which show Art Nouveau 
at its best, blended with the very latest 
development in interior decoration, 
involving somewhat a return to old 
period designs and to a degree the break¬ 
ing of faith with the former cast-iron 
standards of new art. For instance, in 
the drawing room of M. Monteux there 
is a combination of new art decoration 
and furniture of the loth century which 
bring back much of the old elegance of 
France’s traditional school. The com¬ 
fortable luxurious chairs are definitely 
Louis Phillipe shorn of decoration. The 
wall lamps of metal and alabaster are 
unquestionably Art Nouveau, as is the 
mirror in its curved frame of gilded 
wood and the ebony fireplace with 
rounded corners and metal beading. 
The walls of this salon are quite in 
the newest mode covered entirely with 
tightly drawn satin in a delicate shade 
of mauve, which makes a charming 
background for the rich velvet furniture. 
The handsomest of these modern 
rooms do not entirely ignore the bril¬ 
liant eccentricities of Poiret and Mar- 
tine, but there is a new note being 
struck. You feel it in the charming 
room of M. Kapferer in Paris, the walls 
covered with damask, gray and yellow, 
a velvet couch which is rerhiniscent of 
Beidemyer. And then the yellow marble 
mantel softly curved with its flowered 
Art Nouveau pilasters. 
A new wall treatment is shown in M. 
Bernheim’s Parisian apartment. From 
under a smooth, dark wood molding, 
green velvet curtains hang to the floor 
in graceful fluted folds. The ceiling with 
a softly curved cornice is entirely dull 
gold and the dark velvet luxurious fur¬ 
niture is framed with gold. A delightful 
novelty in this room is the flower shaped 
alabaster bowl supported on slender 
shafts of metal, the bowl intended to 
hold an electric bulb from which the 
light seeps out through the alabaster in 
a pleasant glow. 
It is hard to say whether the gorgeous 
bathroom in the home of Mme. Bern- 
heim in Paris is wholly original, an ar¬ 
chitect’s dream or the owner’s ideal. 
The walls are covered with blue and 
green fine mosaics in patterns like a 
huge quilt. Marble is used for the 
bracket dressing table, the bath and the 
radiator frames. Blue satin curtains 
cover the doorway, and under the 
dressing table is a satir cushion in 
case the mosaic floor is found too hard 
or cold. 
Altogether this acknowledgment by 
some of the best modern French deco¬ 
rators that there is beauty in the past, 
and value in tradition as a background 
for decoration is really working out for 
more harmonious and elegent interiors 
than we can remember to have seen in 
the purely Art Nouveau house. 
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of finish. It is moderate in price and there¬ 
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builder. 
Besides these striking qualities, it has the 
advantages of the ordinary “built-in” type 
of bath, being admirably suited for a show¬ 
er, and made for corner, as shown, or for 
recess. 
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