House & 
Garden 
38 
MNMt. 
A combination of 
real white satin 
curtains and painted 
curtains has been 
used in this bath¬ 
room. The arm¬ 
chair is painted 
white and covered 
in white silk plaided 
in dark and light 
blue 
In the room with 
the white Italian 
four-poster t h e 
white satin curtains 
are simply made 
and finished with 
pleated ruffles. The 
white satin is hung 
over the pink taf¬ 
feta, giving a warm 
light 
Collecting white for this bedroom began with the 
fragile old lace shawl that hangs above the white and 
gold Louis XVI bed with the terminal swans holding 
the shawl in their beaks. The walls, ceiling and 
woodwork, are yellow-pink, the undercurtains a thin 
pineapple tissue of cream white and the draperies 
silvery gauze 
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Ilarting 
When one specializes on a color and adopts it as her 
favorite, its presence in a room would seem to dominate 
all others. In this room the rug has white stars that 
greatly outshine—to the owner—the violet and pink 
rose in the medallion of the rug. The Louis XVI 
over-mantel panel was originally white 
