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DIRECTORY^/ DECORATION 8 FINE ARTS 
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Every Mary Lucy Banks Basket 
Beautifies The Home 
No. 300—20 inches in length No. 301 —18 inches in length 
$11.00 postpaid $7.00 postpaid 
Two styles of very smart Gathering Baskets, also useful for Magazines. 
May be had in Ivory with black trimmings or Black with orange Floral 
designs in harmonious coloring. Or may be painted to order to suit 
individual taste. 
Mary Lucy Banks, 
10 Warren St., Hollis, L. I., N. Y. 
Antique Oriental 
Rug Certainty 
Because Persia is exhausted 
and other sources nearly so, 
resulting in importers not re¬ 
ceiving 1% of former supply 
of antiques, and BECAUSE: 
through foresight based upon 
consular reports, I own a large 
stock of thick antiques, in¬ 
cluding Persians, you are 
invited to know these glories 
by writing for new descriptive 
list, prices at the low. 
Read the list, note the 
credentials indicate your 
preferences. I adhere to your 
requirements and pay express 
on approval, thus making 
your final selections free of 
hypnotic salesmanship. My 
books show that my custom¬ 
ers invariably buy more than 
they anticipated. 
L. B. Lawlon, Skanealeles, N. Y. 
Decorate Your 
Walls With 
French Scenic Papers 
Beautiful scenic papers, made 
from wood blocks engraved 
in the luxurious France of 
Napoleon’s day. These papers 
give the effect of mural paint¬ 
ings, and in beauty and dis¬ 
tinction are vastly superior 
to even the highest type of 
formal design. They depict 
such subjects as El Dorado, 
Scenic America, Italian 
Landscape, Fetes of Louis 
XIII, etc. 
If your decorator cannot supply 
you. write for illustrated booklet. 
A. L. DIAMENT 8c CO. 
101 Park Ave., New York 
Sole American Agents 
Your Garden 
From the commonplace to 
the interesting is but a 
short step Even th e ordi- 
nary garden may have 
charm and individuality 
through the addition of a 
bit of statuary, a bird-bath, 
or a vase ; and superb ef¬ 
fects can be achieved by 
those who Rive a little 
thought to the harmony 
that exists between ver¬ 
dure and weathered stone. 
Study the possibilities of 
your garden. 
The fountain illustrated here is priced at $137.50 (F. O. B., N. Y. ) 
Our catalog illustrating a great variety of fountains, bird baths and 
other garden ornaments, executed in Pompeian Stone, at prices that 
are practically normal will provide innumerable suggestions. 
THE ERKINS STUDIOS 
Established 1900 
240 Lexington Avenue, at 34tb Street, New York 
Walls paneled in old pine and pictures of ships done in 
colored wools are the features of this attractive dining 
room. Miss Gheen, decorator 
The Stepchild of Rooms 
(Continued from page 69) 
they adapt themselves by using one end are rare both in this country and in 
of a long refectory table. Our sun England. They give a quaint note and 
porch is helping to work out this prob- tie in with the salt glaze china and the 
lent and admits of a variety of treat- old glass, also early American. The 
ments. table is copied from one in the museum 
In the Egyptian room on page 69 at Guilford and the carpet is an Ax- 
(which was planned by the way, before minster, a copy of an old rag rug. The 
the thrilling news of the recent dis- best rag carpet will only sustain a 
covery in Egypt) you will see that the certain amount of wear, so it was 
detail, all of which is taken from old found best to have one made in a 
documents, has been adapted to the happy coloring in the strongest Scotch 
uses of the room as well as to its Axminster we could get. The result 
size. It is interesting to note how well is very pretty and quite practical, 
the little painted chair on the left, In these rooms we have depended 
which is Italian, fits in the atmosphere largely upon furniture and coloring for 
of a civilization so much older than its effect, but I know of a room in New- 
own. The chair on the right is copied port in which there is almost no color- 
from one of those found in the Egyp- ing to speak of. The walls touch the 
tian tombs; everything about it re- ceiling with a curved and carved cor- 
mains the same as the original except nice and are painted rather a deep 
that the leg itself has been elongated, beige. The curtains in this room are the 
When the leg is as short as that in the same shade in a very heavy silk, un¬ 
original, it is an adorable chair to put lined, valance and curtains both 
by the fireside in place of a bench. trimmed with green fringe touched 
This breakfast porch with its bright with yellow at intervals. These cur- 
color and gay design looks into the tains cover three beautiful windows, 
dining room shown on page 68, in rounded at the top. Between two of 
which the walls are severely plain, the windows and on the wall space op- 
They make an excellent background posite are paintings by Hubert Robert, 
for the beautiful old French console on and underneath these are very fine 
the right with its painted classic design Louis XVI consoles a darker tone than 
and the decorative mirror above it. The the walls, finely and simply carved 
chairs and the crystal birds holding the with a marble top in yellow. The chairs 
flowers on the draw table and the iron are of the same period in gray, not 
bench in the window with its crimson beige, and are covered in deep rose 
velvet cushion show the charm of old needlework, patterned with lozenges in 
things even in the photograph. Here greens, yellows and browns. The table 
is a room with an Italian chair and is in American wood stained like old 
stool, French console and English mir- French walnut, with gold mounts. Not 
ror, with a table which is related to much ormolu, just enough to give it 
them all and is still suited to modern character and tone and tie it to the 
every-day life. It is not necessary to period which this room suggests, 
stick to one period in the pursuit of The curving niche on one side op- 
harmony. The days of strictly period posite the mantel, marbleized in verde 
rooms have passed, and while there is antique, holds a large urn, old gold and 
a great danger in this mixture of silver, in which flowers are arranged 
periods, there is also marvelous oppor- according to the season. Before the door 
tunity for interesting ensembles. Here which leads into the service part there 
it is necessary to have knowledge, not is a tall six-paneled screen, 
only of the detail and building of furni- This has always seemed to me one of 
ture, but of its history. the most perfect rooms I have ever 
In the sunroom on page 69 a charm- seen, thanks to the architect who made 
ing effect has been obtained by using it what it should be before it was 
simple curtains of neutral color with a turned over to the decorator. In spite 
chair done in a vivid chintz. No hang- of the fact that the walls and curtains 
ings obstruct the view of the lawn and are monotone and that only the chairs, 
lake beyond and the waxed brick floor pictures and screen have color, it is 
and sturdy Normandy chairs are unus- gay and cheerful even on a dark day. 
ually effective. One can never quite analyze this be- 
The little breakfast room on page cause undoubtedly color is very impor- 
122 is a copy of an old room in a Con- tant in giving cheer. It proves, I think, 
necticut farmhouse. The paneling is that consciously or unconsciously we 
in pine with a rich uneven finish. The are all affected by proportion, and 
principal decoration of this room is while the question of balance may be 
pictures of ships embroidered in wool, over-estimated it is a very safe end to 
They are all of the same period and work for. 
