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House & Garden • 
W here one has a 
wide living - room 
wall space to fill a 
balanced group can 
be made, as above, 
of a couch in blue 
damask, flanked by 
small tables bear¬ 
ing powder blue 
lamps with shades 
of Chinese red and 
gold. Above this, 
on walls of blue 
green, hangs a 
flower painting 
with old Venetian 
mirrors on either 
side. “Au Qua- 
triem e”, John 
Wanamaker, deco¬ 
rator 
Equally interesting 
is a balanced group 
in the New York 
home of Mrs. 
Douglas Robinson. 
Here the wall is 
gray and against 
this is placed a fine 
old, gold Japanese 
screen. The sofa 
is gold damask. 
On the tables are 
old Italian lamps 
with champagne 
colored gauze 
shades. The Ital¬ 
ian Empire chairs 
are covered with 
terra cotta dam¬ 
ask. Miss Gheen, 
decorator 
TI VE 
WHERE THE BALANCED GROUP IS EFFEC 
A Dignified Solution for the Wide Wall Space 
