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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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My
own
dining-room
in
New
York
is
anything
but
usual,
and
yet
there
is
nothing
undignified
about
it.
The
room
was
practically
square,
so
that
it
had
a
certain
orderly
quality
to
begin
with.
The
rooms
of
the
house
are
all
rather
small,
and
so
to
gain
the
greatest
possible
space
I
have
the
door
openings
at
the
extreme
end
of
the
wall,
leaving
as
large
a
wall
space
as
possible.
You
enter
this
room,
then,
through
a
door
at
the
extreme
left
of
the
south
wall
of
the
room.
Another
door
at
the
extreme
right
of
the
same
wall
leads
to
a
private
passage.
The
space
left
between
the
doors
is
thereby
conserved,
and
is
broken
into
a
large
central
panel
flanked
by
two
narrow
panels.
The
space
above
the
doors
is
also
paneled.
This
wall
is
broken
by
a
console
placed
under
the
central
panel.
Above
it
one
of
the
Mennoyer
originals,
which
you
may
remember
in
the
Washington
Irving
dining-room,
is
set
in
the
wall,
framed
with
a
narrow
molding
of
gray.
The
walls
and
woodwork
of
the
room
are
of
exactly
the
same
tone
of
gray--darker
than
a
silver
gray
and
lighter
than
pewter.
Everything,
color,
balance,
proportion,
objects
of
art,
has
been
uniformly
considered.
Continuing,
the
east
wall
is
broken
in
the
center
by
the
fireplace,
with
a
mantel
of
white
and
gray
marble.
A
large
mirror,
surmounted
with
a
bas-relief
in
black
and
white,
fills
the
space
between
mantel
shelf
and
cornice.
This
mirror
and
bas-relief
are
framed
with
the
narrow
carved
molding
painted
gray.
Here
again
there
is
the
beauty
of
balance:
two
Italian
candlesticks
of
carved
and
gilded
wood
flank
a
marble
bust
on
the
mantel
shelf.
There
is
nothing
more.
On
the
right
of
the
mirror,
in
a
narrow
panel,
there
is
a
wall
clock
of
carved
and
gilded
wood
which
also
takes
its
place
as
a
part
of
the
wall,
and
keeps
it.
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