Contents for January, 1918. Volume XXXIII, No. One 
House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
Cover Design by Porter Woodruff 
Frontispiece—The Window in Decorative Composition. 12 
Little & Browne, Architects 
Spanish Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries. 13 
H. D. Eberlein and Abbot McClure 
Wrought Iron in the Garden Room. 15 
Frederick Wallick 
The Residence of Gardner Steel, Esq., Pittsburgh, Pa. 16 
Louis Stevens, Architect 
The Doom of the Dining Room. 18 
A Study in Mixed Styles. 19 
Little & Browne, Architects 
The Glass of a Thousand Flowers. 20 
Gardner Teall 
Substitutes for Sideboards. 22 
A Formal Garden of Unique Lines. 25 
Robert Stell 
Desks and Chairs. 24 
The Winter Porch. 25 
Mary Worthington 
The Importance of Good Upholstery. 26 
E. F. Lewis 
Making the Most of Deep Windows. 27 
Persian Motifs in Furniture. 28 
G. W. Harting 
How to Buy Lighting Fixtures. 30 
E. H. Goodnough 
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January Variations on the Theme of Fine Linen. 31 
Drafting the Garden for War Service. 32 
F. F. Rockwell 
A Page of Color Schemes. 34 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 35 
Planning a Garden of True Blue. 38 
Elizabeth Leonard Strang 
Overdoor Decorations. 40 
The Romance of the Renaissance Translated into Furniture 41 
The Garden Possibilities of a City Backyard. 42 
Ida D. Bennett 
The Residence of J. M. Townsend, Jr., Esq., Mill Neck, L. I. 44 
W. Lawrence Bottomley, Architect 
Garden Advice from an Amateur to Amateurs. 45 
Kate Ellis Truslow 
Seen in the Shops. 46 
Corners in the Decoration of a Room. 48 
Frederick Wallace 
The Making of Easy Stairs. 49 
Ernest Irving Freese 
The War Garden Department. 50 
Painted Furniture. 51 
Watch the Thermometer. 52 
V. S. Government Fuel Administration 
For That Library. 52 
A Small Clapboard Suburban House. 53 
William T. Marchant, Architect 
The Gardener’s Kalendar. 54 
Vogue Company 
THE ANNUAL BUILDING NUMBER 
S EVENTY-FIVE to a hundred photographs 
of houses come into this office every month. 
They are sent in by architects, owners and 
architectural photographers all over the country. 
Imagine the toil, then, to select just the right 
ones. We think we have succeeded in this 
February issue. 
The first house is a little Norman cottage 
of stucco and hand-hewn logs by Bloodgood 
Tuttle; the second a little house with a tower 
especially designed for House & Garden by 
Caretto & Forster; the third, the half-timbered 
home of a well known artist; the fourth a 
little Colonial house hid away beneath wistaria; 
the fifth a tiny cottage of clapboard; and the 
sixth a small town house of Georgian extrac¬ 
tion. These six are not elaborate nor costly, 
but they are architecturally good and good to 
live in. 
Among the building articles will be contri¬ 
butions on what can and cannot be put in the 
small house, the use of wall board, the building 
of closets, entrances, exterior lattice, and paint 
and stain finishes. 
Then when the inside of the house is ready 
for furnishing, here are ideas that will prove 
invaluable—a description of the decorations put 
in his house by Joseph Urban, the scenic painter; 
the furniture that can be combined, pottery in 
decoration, how to buy fixtures for the fireplace, 
the Little Portfolio, the tochere, the curtaining 
of round windows, breakfast rooms, a page of 
new cabinets and hutches, and Spanish seating 
furniture. 
For the gardener come three suggestions for 
the garden backgrounds, a garden of purple and 
mauve flowers, garden club war activities and 
starting the war garden. 
We are making a special drive this year to 
make the garden side of the magazine more 
practical than ever—to lay especial emphasis 
on utilitarian gardens which will contribute their 
quota to the food supply. The February num¬ 
ber proves that decorative flower gardening is 
by no means to be neglected; in these times our 
minds as well as our stomachs must be fed. But 
you will find in it a special inspiration to make 
your vegetable garden this year a complete 
success. 
Here is a number nicely balanced, with in¬ 
creasing interest as the pages turn. It is an 
issue that you cannot afford to miss. 
.1 dining room glimpse in one of 
the houses shown in February 
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