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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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Miss
Marbury's
sitting-room
is
on
the
next
floor,
exactly
like
mine,
architecturally,
but
we
have
worked
them
out
differently.
I
think
there
is
nothing
more
interesting
than
the
study
of
the
different
developments
of
a
series
of
similar
rooms,
for
instance,
a
dozen
drawing-rooms,
twelve
stories
deep,
in
a
modern
apartment
house!
Each
room
is
left
by
the
builder
with
the
same
arrangement
of
doors
and
windows,
the
same
wall
spaces
and
moldings,
the
same
opportunity
for
good
or
bad
development.
It
isn't
often
our
luck
to
see
all
twelve
of
the
rooms,
but
sometimes
we
see
three
or
four
of
them,
and
how
amazingly
different
they
are!
How
amusing
is
the
suggestion
of
personality,
or
lack
of
it!
Now
in
these
two
sitting-rooms
in
our
house
the
rooms
are
exactly
the
same
in
size,
in
exposure,
in
the
placing
of
doors
and
windows
and
fireplaces,
and
we
have
further
paralleled
our
arrangement
by
placing
our
day
beds
in
the
same
wall
space,
but
there
the
similarity
ends.
Miss
Marbury's
color
plan
is
different:
her
walls
are
a
soft
gray,
the
floor
is
covered
in
a
solid
blue
carpet
rug,
rather
dark
in
tone,
the
chintz
also
has
a
black
ground,
but
the
pattern
is
entirely
different
in
character
from
the
room
below.
There
is
a
day
bed,
similar
to
mine,
but
where
my
bed
has
been
upholstered
with
brocade,
Miss
Marbury's
has
a
loose
slip
cover
of
black
chintz.
The
spaces
between
the
windows
in
my
room
are
filled
with
bookshelves,
and
in
Miss
Marbury's
room
the
same
spaces
are
filled
with
mirrors.
The
large
wall-space
that
is
background
to
my
old
secretary
is
in
her
room
given
up
to
long
open
bookshelves
of
mahogany.
My
over-mantel
is
mirrored,
and
hers
is
filled
with
an
old
painting.
The
recessed
spaces
on
each
side
of
the
chimney
breast
hold
small
semi-circular
tables
of
marquetry,
with
a
pair
of
long
Adam
mirrors
hanging
above
them.
Another
Adam
mirror
hangs
above
the
bookshelves
on
the
opposite
wall.
These
mirrors
are
really
the
most
important
things
in
the
room,
because
the
moldings
and
lighting-fixtures
and
picture
frames
have
been
made
to
harmonize
with
them.
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