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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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The
walls
of
the
rooms
were
paneled
in
a
delicious
color
between
yellow
and
tan,
the
wall
proper
and
the
moldings
being
this
color,
and
the
panels
themselves
filled
with
a
gray
paper
painted
in
pinky
yellows
and
browns.
These
panels
were
done
by
hand
by
a
man
who
found
his
inspiration
in
the
painted
panels
of
an
old
French
ballroom.
As
the
walls
were
unbroken
by
windows
there
was
ample
space
for
such
decoration.
A
carpet
of
rose
color
was
chosen,
and
the
skylight
was
curtained
with
shirred
silk
of
the
same
rose.
The
table
and
chairs
were
of
painted
wood,
the
chairs
having
seats
of
the
brocade
used
on
the
ante-room
sofa.
The
table
was
covered
with
rose
colored
brocade,
and
over
this,
cobwebby
lace,
and
over
this,
plate
glass.
There
are
two
consoles
in
the
room,
with
small
cabinets
above
which
hold
certain
objets
d'art
in
keeping
with
the
room.
Under
the
two
tiny
windows
were
those
terrible
snags
we
decorators
always
strike,
the
radiators.
Wrongly
placed,
they
are
capable
of
spoiling
any
room.
I
concealed
these
radiators
by
building
two
small
cabinets
with
panels
of
iron
framework
gilded
to
suggest
a
graceful
metal
lattice,
and
lined
them
with
rose-colored
silk.
I
borrowed
this
idea
from
a
fascinating
cabinet
in
an
old
French
palace,
and
the
result
is
worth
the
deception.
The
cabinets
are
nice
in
themselves,
and
they
do
not
interfere
with
the
radiation
of
the
heat.
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