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House & Garden 
art objects. In other 
words, they should be 
really beautiful things in 
themselves. Fortunately, 
for us, there are bits of 
lovely china and glass 
from the Orient, modern 
to be sure, but verv love¬ 
ly in color and attractive 
in design, which are 
available today. Italy is 
also making fascinating 
pottery, appropriate for 
lamps, flower bowls, 
vases, and so forth, most 
of it reproductions of old 
pieces, but all of it an¬ 
swering to the require¬ 
ments of both use and 
beauty. 
Importance of Position 
No matter how beauti¬ 
ful the object, however, 
or how lovely its color, 
it will be of no avail un¬ 
less it is so placed as to 
be of some real use. Not 
only must that be consid¬ 
ered, but the question of 
overcrowding as well. For 
example, the potential 
possibilities of a mantel 
shelf or a buffet, or a 
console table are ver}- 
great. On all these may 
be developed a well-bal¬ 
anced, restful, interesting 
decoration, through the 
use of carefully selected, 
harmoniously placed ob¬ 
jects. Their use in pairs 
as in many instances il¬ 
lustrated, creates that 
restful, well-balanced at¬ 
mosphere which makes 
the coming into some 
rooms such a delight. 
Centers of Decoration 
The objects selected 
for these little centers of 
decoration should be suf¬ 
ficiently closely related 
in themselves in type, as 
well as to the object on 
which they are placed. 
An Italian table, with an 
old piece of heavy filet 
lace will carry with dis¬ 
tinction a pair of tall 
amber colored Venetian 
glass urns, and a center 
decoration of fruits in an 
Italian alabaster bowl. 
This feeling for the right 
thing is not merely an aj)- 
preciation of beauty, it is 
a gradual elimination of 
the inadequate. If your 
Delightfully appointed is a Vene¬ 
tian lacquer desk with a happy 
arrangeme?it of a Chinese figurine 
betweeti two lotus blossoms, 
sense of symmetry is gained by 
the careful placing of the land¬ 
scape picture with a flower print 
at each side and small black 
framed mirrors. Decorations from 
Mrs. Emott Biiel 
An antique walnut Italian settee 
stands between a pair of mahog¬ 
any and satinwood small French 
tables of the same epoch. On 
them are placed green Chinese 
porcelain lamps with painted 
lacquer shades in a petit point de¬ 
sign. The whole arrangement be¬ 
ing completely harmonious. Deco¬ 
rations from Dartiley, Inc. 
On a round tripod Empire table 
in dull mahogany with green and 
gold legs and a marble top, stands 
a Venetian glass vase of gracefid 
flowers and a quaint old chan¬ 
ticleer. The chair is correct in scale 
and character and combines hap¬ 
pily with the other furnishings. 
Decorations from Chamberlin 
Dodds 
Perfect boudoir accessories are a 
painted lamp with a taffeta shade 
finished with multi-colored rib¬ 
bon, a French figurine in the Chi¬ 
nese manner and an old painted 
sweetmeat box, all disposed on a 
satinwood double kidney-shaped 
table with gilt bronze ornaments. 
Decorations from Chamberlin 
Dodds 
