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House & Garden 
Harting 
Curly maple was used as far back as ISO 
years ago. This chest of drawers is a fine 
specimen. So is the maple, rush-seated 
chair. Courtesy of Jane Teller 
and have not yet been grouped into a style. 
We have in America today a very fine type of 
domestic architecture, scarcely a decade old, 
which is not suited to the Period furniture of 
France or the elaborate old polychrome style 
of Italy or even to the furniture we know best 
in England. And for these houses we need 
more than anything else our Colonial furni¬ 
ture, our iron work, even the hooked rugs and 
wall papers. In the illustrations used in this 
article, we are showing how delightfully ap¬ 
propriate this old Colo- 
f, “jja 
The New York 
apartment of John 
Murray Anderson, 
the producer of the 
colorful Greenwich 
Village Follies, is 
furnished in the aus¬ 
tere style of Colo¬ 
nial days 
Casement windows 
were used before 
the double - hung 
sash. In this group 
by Benjamin Ben- 
guiat they form the 
proper background 
for the unusual 
pieces of early pine 
nial furniture is in the 
modern room. It suits 
our new types of walls, 
whether they are plain 
tinted plaster or dec¬ 
orated; it suits our case¬ 
ment windows with the 
lounging seats under¬ 
neath, our fireplaces, our 
comfortable, pretty ideal 
of bedrooms. It goes 
without saying that you 
cannot combine these 
Colonial designs satis- 
factorily with the 
French Periods, or the 
Italian, Spanish and 
Greek designs. But for 
the new homes that our 
domestic architects are 
creating, comfortable, 
convenient, and pictur¬ 
esque, there is no furni¬ 
ture so intimate, so har¬ 
monious as the furniture 
of our forefathers. 
No craftsman that we 
know has ever handled 
walnut more beautifully 
