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DIRECTORY OF DECORATIVE FINE ARTS 
lingular Smoking Table 
Height 18" Top 12" x 12" 
In colors, green, reel, yellow 
and walnut linish. Inside of 
top and legs in black. Danish 
pottery ash receiver. $ 16.00 
CMAMBERLAYNE, Inc. 
DESIGNERS and MAKERS oj 
DECORATIVE FURNITURE 
226 East 42ntl Street. New York City 
T he illustration shows part of 
an interesting hearth group 
. which includes a pair of Andirons 
■ (Design 842 — 23 " high —$27 a 
pair.) Fireset (Design 412 — 38 " 
high—$21 each.) 
Polished brass medallion, wrought 
iron in half-polish finish. 
Catalogue H sent on request 
The H.W.Covert Company 
IJ7 Ea.st 46 th Street New York 
Open Fire 
Without Fireplace 
The Jaxon Franklin stove can he piped 
to an ordinary chimney or used in i 
regular open fireplace. Beautiful copies 
of Colonial patterns with grates or and¬ 
irons as preferred. Give more heat and 
less smoke than usual fireplace. 
SendJor descriptive folder. Also catalog 
oj wood mantels, oj andirons and other 
Jireptace Jurntshinos. 
Edwin A. Jackson & Bro., Inc. 
49 E. Beekman St., New York, N. Y. 
Philippian 
Waste Basket 
10K''xl2'' 
Priced at $4.50 
Porto Rican 
Garden or Hearth Basket 
12'^ X 18" — $3.50 
16" X 20" — 4.50 
FILET TIRE LINENS 
NATIVE HATS HAMMOCKS 
GIFTS 
New York 
540 Madison Ave. 
Southampton. L. I. Long Beach. L. I. 
(1) Has large broad Table Top (20x30 in.) 
(2) TWO Undersbelves (to transport 
ALL the table dishes in ONE TRIP.) 
(3) Large center pull-out Drawer. 
(4) Double End Guiding Handles. 
(5) Equipped with four (4) Rubber Tired 
Scientifically Silent”Swivel ^/hccls 
(6) A beautiful extra glass Serving Tray 
Write for descriptive pamphlet and dealer's name 
THE COMBINATION STUDIOS 
504-G Ciunard Bldg.. Chicago. Ill. 
SERVICE TABLE WAGON 
Saves Thousands of Steps 
FAIENCE TILES in colors and tints 
for Breakfast Rooms, Sun Parlors 
and Porches. 
WHITE GLAZED TILES for Bath 
Rooms and Kitchen Walls. 
VITRIFIED TILES for floors. 
QUARRY TILES\n colors for porches 
and walks. 
DECORATED TILE INSERTS for 
Exterior and Interior Decorations. 
Brown Tile Distributing Co. 
7 East 42nd St.. New York City 
House Garden 
The range of easements, the dining table beneath them, the Welsh 
dresser, the simple door, the fireside settle—ail these elements help 
establish the cottage atmosphere. Designed by Aymar Embury, ii 
FURNISHING A COLONIAL HOME, 
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our livable house we will reject things 
that smack of a stage setting. 
But we have three styles that belong to 
our own country that offer ample opj)or- 
tunity for e.xpression of the three qualities 
stipulated above They are the New 
England village house, with long sloping 
roof and great center chimney; the Dutch 
Colonial of brick or stone with hipped 
roof and chimneys incorporated in the 
end walls; and the Spanish Colonial for 
the Southwest Coast and Florida. .\nd, 
strange to say, the early .\merican fur¬ 
niture mentioned above is almost equally 
appropriate for all three. The tavern 
table.s and fiddle back hairs of New 
England and Penns>'l\-ania are found with 
slight modifications in Spain and northern 
Italy, in Corsica and even in Norway; for 
style in furniture, as in clothes, has often 
traveled through many countries. 
So let us choose a New England Village 
house and furnish it for toda>. The living 
room is i8' by 22' with ceiling 8' high. 
The fireplace is in the end of the room and 
the room is paneled in that end only from 
floor to ceiling. I'he paneling is made of 
white pine with large raised panels and a 
quaint slope to them on either side of the 
chimney, ever so slight, down towards the 
side walls, like a ship’s cabin. This is 
after the old ^larblehead and Salem 
houses, built by the shipwrights for the 
sea cai)tains and merchant princes of that 
day. The other walls have a dado of the 
pine panels about 2' high, and above 
that a scenic wall paper that has 'oeen 
glazed with sepia after it was hung. This 
glazing has brought down the tone to an 
autumn amber, through which the design 
does not obtrude too harshly to pre^•ent 
the hanging of a few choice pictures and 
old prints. Bookcases arc built in, not 
bought like articles of furniture; and they 
are open, for books are to he read and not 
worn as ornaments. 
The moldings of the panels, windows 
and doors arc to be studied for correctness. 
It is as easy to have them right as wrong, 
and there is a right way to proportion the 
panels of the doors. The woodwork is 
either finished cream white enamel or 
treated with acids and waxed when it is 
the color of old meerschaum. This latter 
is the color it would be if we had bought 
old paneling, scraped off ages of paint and 
oiled it. It happens to be the last word 
in st>'le today. 
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If the windows can be recessed with a ' 
little flare to the jams, and narrow panels] 
on the sides, it is ideal. And if a thin cor-, 
nice of curly maple, for curtains, jig- 
sawed along the top in the flame orna- * 
ment of a “Washington Mirror” can be| 
hung with about a 4” projection, into tliei 
room,—this over each window will add 
more of authenticity and charm than can 
he casil}' imagined. These cornices can be 
painted dull green-blue and gold to advan- ! 
tage if curly maple cannot be had. | 
The curtains are chintz, at least in! 
summer. Some fine, large design, such I 
as those by Harry Wearne in this coun-' 
try. or by Thorold D. Lee in England.' 
This much for the setting! 
The furniture! Lady to a salesman; 
“I want to see some furniture suitable for 
a living room in a house of New England;, 
Village Colonial architecture.” 
The salesman looks blank for a nio-| 
ment, but the smile of professional con¬ 
descension soon returns. “Yes, Madam!' 
Right this wa\'.” 
The lad}' is shown a three-piece parlor, 
“suite” in shiny, dark mahogany and 
machine-made tapestr}'; the seats of 
I)atent spring construction, and the arms 
of the davenport a foot or more thick. 
Or it may be a “suite” of Rennaissancc' 
carving or “Queen .\nne”. In any event 
it is hopelessly modern and elaborate with 
ornament like a “movie front”; all fo" 
show, and the claims of “period” resting 
on but superficial variations of the 
merest externals. 
Manufacturers of furniture should take, 
just as much interest in authenticity of| 
details of design in furniture as do the, 
architects in houses, and the designers of 
fabrics and papers. But the purchaser 
must bring knowledge and judgment to 
the quest and this can be obtained by 1 
careful study of the illustrations in such' 
books as those by Luke Vincent Lock- 
wood, Miss Frances Morse and the recent 
book by Wallace Nutting; and, above all, 
by careful observation of collections. 
The furnishing of the living room is 
then a pleasure. The money allowance is 
increased to cover things not common and 
commercial, but is sufficient to procure 
pieces where truth in design and construc¬ 
tion and quality—not price—are the main 
considerations. In that way the furni¬ 
ture by which taste is shown may be a 
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