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House & Garden 
TARS 
in strange and opposite ef¬ 
fects. If space becomes more 
and more precious and we 
drop our front doors deeper 
and deeper underground we 
may achieve a new sort of 
house, where we burrow be¬ 
neath the low ceiling of the 
entrance floor, and gradually 
ascend to lofty ceilings under 
the roof. 
The particular house in 
which I had the great pleas¬ 
ure—after great despair—of 
remaking a hideous hall into 
a beautiful one, was of the 
French and Italian Empire 
furniture are combined — 
Italian chairs in dark green 
and gold, French chairs in 
old white and an Italian 
console finished in gilt and 
greenish blue 
THE 
HALL 
O F 
In the Lower Passage of a Remodeled New York House 
Empire and Chinese Ideas Meet Amicably 
RUBY ROSS GOODNOW 
T HE very word “hall” 
has a sound of great 
height and dignity, 
and when one adds such a 
lofty word as “stars” the im¬ 
pression given is so far from 
the real hall I describe that 
I feel I must begin with an 
apology. For, certainly, there 
never was a hall less lofty, 
and the stars are not on the 
ceiling, but on the floor. 
City architecture, like city 
life, makes for paradoxes, 
and I suppose the exigencies 
of rebuilding will ever result 
To conform with the dark 
floor a mantel of black 
marble was used. The base¬ 
board is also black marble. 
The lighting fixtures are 
Empire, in dark green and 
gilt colors 
IIart in g 
