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House Garden 
^^sidence in (*oluTn6us^ Ohio^ 
equipped throughout with 
^^ddle Decorative d^ghting Fitments 
jL N building a new home the selection 
of the lighting equipment is usually left 
to the last, and too frequently the need 
of “economizing” is felt. But is there 
any real economy in inferior and inartis¬ 
tic lighting fixtures? Is it not wise to 
provide definitely in your building plans 
for an appropriate lighting installation, 
setting aside a suitable amount therefor? 
Beautiful lighting adds the final touch to 
the home. There is no need to spend ex¬ 
travagantly. Riddle Fitments, now be¬ 
ing chosen for so many of the better 
homes, are individual in design and dec¬ 
oration, and yet an entire installation 
may be made at moderate expense. And, 
because the finish never deteriorates, they 
are a permanent investment. Booklet 
illustrated in colors, and details of our 
planning service for home builders, sent 
on request. 
THE EDWARD N. RIDDLE COMPANY 
iijB RIDDLE BUILDING 
Toledo, Ohio 
DECORATIVE LIGHTING FITMENTS 
The FURNITURE of the CHIPPENDALES 
{Continued jrom page 94 ) 
13^)0 of room it will be remembered that 
the background architecture of the room 
was in the classical taste we associate with 
Georgian work, but this classicism mani¬ 
fested itself in the furniture only in those 
pieces which were made architectural fea¬ 
tures—bookshelves, large presses and 
such. The arrangement of the furniture 
was formal^' dignified, each piece having 
its appointed place. Silk was used both 
for curtains and for draping the walls. 
Tapestry panels are found both on the 
wails and on the furnibtire. Silk damask 
was the favorite upholstery fabric. On 
the floors were laid large squares of car¬ 
pet. By the middle of the i8th Centuiy^ 
wall papers had become a favorite method 
of covering the walls, especially Chinese 
painted papers, which formed an excellent 
background in Chinese Chippendale. 
The Chippendale st3'le includes a great 
variety of subjects—chairs of various 
t3'pes, tables, both card and dining tables, 
writing tables and bureaus, bookcases and 
beds. The dining tables of this era were 
usually made in sets of two or more, each 
having sides that let down. These put 
together made a long table accommodat¬ 
ing many guests. Fine boards of mahog¬ 
any were selected for the top. The tip 
tables on tripod stands were very popular 
in this era. When not in use these tables 
were set against the wall. 
The bookcases of the period were im¬ 
posing affairs, sometimes with glass pan¬ 
eled doors, with shelves above and cup¬ 
boards below. Hanging book shelves, now 
so much the vogue, were designed and 
made by Chippendale. Many of them 
were in the Chinese manner and were de¬ 
signed to hold a few books, a clock, or a 
piece or two of ornamental china. 
Extreme beauty characterized the 
beds, four-poster, of course. The cornice 
was usually quite ornate, the poster 
carved and polished, a head board but no 
foot board. Valances, testers and such 
draperies were used. 
Among the illustrations will be noted 
some furniture mounts. These brasses 
show pierced decorative back plates, 
small escutcheons and simple drop han¬ 
dles. 
Mr. and Mrs. G. Glen Gould 
A BREATH FROM THE VIEUX CARRE 
{Continued from page 72 ) 
Orleans, a house which seems a forerunner 
of better times in architecture. It lies at 
the end of a short street, a cul-de-sac, 
leading off one of the city’s most fashion¬ 
able residential thoroughfares. From 
the avenue one can see its soft pink stucco 
walls and its purplish-gray slate roof 
above a row of large palm trees which 
grow before the door. It is almost hidden 
by the verdure around it. 
The French Quarter offers wonderful 
material in ideas, and the house has been 
built accordingl3L The architects made a 
study of the old dwellings of the Vieux 
Carre and evolved this house therefrom 
by combining some features with those of 
the t3'pical Spanish house. And, like the 
buildings of the old quarter, this new 
house is one of distinct and definite per¬ 
sonality, and it is eminently suited to the 
semi-tropical climate of Louisiana. The 
house is placed directl}' on the street line 
to give it a garden space as large as possi¬ 
ble. The garden, set against the house, is 
surrounded on three sides by a high wall, 
and is planted with large trees and shrub- 
i ber3q thus receiving absolute privacy. 
I In looking out from the windows of the 
I house, one gets no hint of a surrounding 
I city. 
j The center of the garden is an open 
lawn, irregularly oval in shape. The 
, planting carries out the tropical effect of 
the house, there being large clumps of 
I banana trees, oleanders, Spanish daggers, 
I and century plants. There are roses, too, 
and jasmine and honeysuckle—a t3'picai 
Southern garden, fragrant and beautiful. 
The building is of a soft pink stucco, 
and it is covered with a roof of a sort of 
mauve slate. The coloring recalls Itah', 
and it recalls, too, the French Quarter of 
the old New Orleans where houses were 
tinted in vivid colors. It is almost 
screened from the street b3" a row of large 
palm trees growing along the sidewalk. 
One enters through a door of grilled iron 
work. There is a square entiyq paved 
with flagstones. The house forms two 
sides of the square, but the third is an 
open arch which gives into a small court- 
3’ard where banana trees grow amid a 
tangled mass of green shrubbeiy^ and flow¬ 
ers. From the entry one looks across this 
court to the garage, also of pink stucco 
and quite a charming little building in it¬ 
self, with its heavy batten doors of soft 
green, and its sloping roof, half buried in 
the tops of palm trees. 
The main door of the house opens into 
a short hall which is parallel with the 
street outside, and in which the stairs 
rise to the second story. These stairs 
have a hand raU of wrought iron, very sim¬ 
ple and austere in design. From this hall 
are doors leading into the main sitting 
room, and into the service quarters. 
The drawing room, or main sitting 
room, is rectangular, with dimensions 
twenty by thirty feet or approximately 
that. It is one step lower than the hall, 
and the floor is paved with very beautiful 
flagstones taken from an old house in the 
Vieux Carre; they are soft mauve in color 
and have been worn smooth by the tread 
of the many feet which have passed over 
them for more than a century. 
The side of the sitting room opposite 
the door has three large French windows 
which open directly onto the garden. 
One end of the room is completely covered 
with built-in bookshelves, filled with rare 
old books. There are doors at each end of 
the bookshelves, one opening into the 
dining room, the other into a loggia, 
paved like the sitting room with flag¬ 
stones. The fourth side of the room has a 
large open fireplace, set flush with the 
wall, and flanked on either side by case¬ 
ment windows opening into the courtyard 
already described. 
The room is fascinating in color. It is 
all subdued and perfectly blended. The 
walls are of a soft gray plaster, as they 
are throughout the house, and the wood¬ 
work is dull oak. The floor is that pecu¬ 
liar purplish color which only old stone 
can give, and the draperies are dull in 
tone. By day the room is flooded with 
sunlight, and by night it is lighted by 
candles and electric lights concealed 
behind soft parchment shades. The room 
is severe in furnishing, but comfortable. 
A wide, deep sofa of soft mulberry color 
stands against the wall opposite the 
windows; another large sofa is near the 
fireplace. Old Spanish chairs, covered 
with tooled and gilded leather, stand 
about; and beneath a window there is a 
large early i8th Centuiy' chest, richh' 
carc’ed, and surmounted by a quaint old 
painted wooden statue of a saint, and two 
dull brass candlesticks. 
The dining room, which is reached by 
going up one step, is equally charming, 
with its quaint old Welsh dresser, its 
pewter, and its old dishes in rich colors. 
Qne whole side is of glass and opens upon 
the loggia which, in turn, overlooks the 
garden. Seated at the dining table, one 
looks out, through Spanish arches, into a 
riot of tropical foliage. 
