DOI issue:
Nr. 340 (September 1925)
DOI article:Ott, Horace Wesley: Synthetic decoration
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19985#0425
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LIVING ROOM IN A NEW YORK APARTMENT Pbolo by Amcmiya
The dressing table, stool and chaise longue, and yellow. The chair coverings, original old
whereas they owe their inspiration to the past, to velvet in faded mustard yellow, repeat the soft
our knowledge have no historical prototypes. The tones of the medallion in the rug. The drapes are
stool in antique gold dimly suggests a Venetian self-toned green damask hung against glass cur-
model of the late seventeenth century. The dress- tains of gold gauze, surmounted by an antique
ing table in satinwood and floral decoration with gold cornice. A daring note is successfully intro-
bandings of jade green glaze and mouldings in duced in the cut velvet table cover and the antique
gold may be said for convenience to be in the style velvet antependium in dull red.
of Louis XVI. The chaise longue, covered in the The table, old Italian of the refectory type, is
same cosmos damask as the bed covering, is of the in walnut with bandings of inlay in yellowed fruit
same period. woods. The chairs, also in walnut, are somewhat
The dining room, also in an apartment, is fur- later in period. Especially interesting is the
nished almost entirely with Italian antiques, and antique chest, which fortunately happened to be
for that reason comes nearest to being a "period" sufficiently high to serve as a cabinet. The photo-
room of any of the illustrations. Even here, how- graph fails to show the inlay on the front pane s,
ever, there has been no attempt to reproduce a depicting delightfully naive battle scenes with
Renaissance background; the walls, painted and stationary warriors mounted on amusing hobby-
glazed a deep ivory, are far from being typically horses of the type which Uccello made memorable.
Italian; the rug, moreover, is Turkish, presumed The living room, in the same apartment, is a
to be a facsimile of one in the Sultan's palace. happy conglomeration of many periods. The sofa,
Stated in the baldest terms, the color scheme covered in rose self-toned damask, is obviously of
would sound quite impossible, but the room itself, the Louis XV period, and equally obvious, one
no matter how misleading may be our color such as Louis XV probably never saw. The coffee
nomenclature, is triumphantly lovely. The rug table, in antique gold, with a marble top, is per-
is in spring green with a central medallion in tan haps the most frivolous member of the ensemble.
SEPTEMBER 1925
Jour twenly-Jive
LIVING ROOM IN A NEW YORK APARTMENT Pbolo by Amcmiya
The dressing table, stool and chaise longue, and yellow. The chair coverings, original old
whereas they owe their inspiration to the past, to velvet in faded mustard yellow, repeat the soft
our knowledge have no historical prototypes. The tones of the medallion in the rug. The drapes are
stool in antique gold dimly suggests a Venetian self-toned green damask hung against glass cur-
model of the late seventeenth century. The dress- tains of gold gauze, surmounted by an antique
ing table in satinwood and floral decoration with gold cornice. A daring note is successfully intro-
bandings of jade green glaze and mouldings in duced in the cut velvet table cover and the antique
gold may be said for convenience to be in the style velvet antependium in dull red.
of Louis XVI. The chaise longue, covered in the The table, old Italian of the refectory type, is
same cosmos damask as the bed covering, is of the in walnut with bandings of inlay in yellowed fruit
same period. woods. The chairs, also in walnut, are somewhat
The dining room, also in an apartment, is fur- later in period. Especially interesting is the
nished almost entirely with Italian antiques, and antique chest, which fortunately happened to be
for that reason comes nearest to being a "period" sufficiently high to serve as a cabinet. The photo-
room of any of the illustrations. Even here, how- graph fails to show the inlay on the front pane s,
ever, there has been no attempt to reproduce a depicting delightfully naive battle scenes with
Renaissance background; the walls, painted and stationary warriors mounted on amusing hobby-
glazed a deep ivory, are far from being typically horses of the type which Uccello made memorable.
Italian; the rug, moreover, is Turkish, presumed The living room, in the same apartment, is a
to be a facsimile of one in the Sultan's palace. happy conglomeration of many periods. The sofa,
Stated in the baldest terms, the color scheme covered in rose self-toned damask, is obviously of
would sound quite impossible, but the room itself, the Louis XV period, and equally obvious, one
no matter how misleading may be our color such as Louis XV probably never saw. The coffee
nomenclature, is triumphantly lovely. The rug table, in antique gold, with a marble top, is per-
is in spring green with a central medallion in tan haps the most frivolous member of the ensemble.
SEPTEMBER 1925
Jour twenly-Jive