44 
House & Garden 
JT 
The importance of 
just the right back¬ 
ground is aptly 
shown in the soft 
gray of these plas¬ 
ter walls. They 
emphasize the 
beauty of old 
Chippendale furni¬ 
ture atid throw in 
relief the dull col¬ 
oring of Chinese 
porcelain jars 
Hofstatter & Co., 
were the decora¬ 
tors of the room 
The simplicity and 
d i g n i t y of this 
drawing-room are 
an admirable set¬ 
ting for the shim¬ 
mering beauty of 
a crystal chande¬ 
lier. The two rooms 
shown on this page 
are in the New 
York home of Al¬ 
fred G. Paine, Jr., 
Esq. C. P. H. Gil¬ 
bert was the archi¬ 
tect 
