14 
House & Garden 
Gillies 
THE BACKGROUNDS 
Each kind of furniture woidd seem to require 
its own kind of background and in seeking the 
proper environment one must understand the 
nature of furniture and the types of wall fin¬ 
ishes. Any of the late 18 th Century designs — 
Adam, Heppelwhite or the French periods— 
require a background of either painted panels 
or a flat painted wall. The sturdier types such 
FOR FURNITURE 
as Jacobean, early Italian, Spanish and French, 
demand a more robust wall—either paneling of 
English oak or the rough finish of a plaster sur¬ 
face. In this hall group there is an obvious 
relation and harmony established between the 
rough wall and the sturdiness of the small 
cupboard, which is in the early Stuart style. 
E. J. Kohn was the architect of the house 
