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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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The
same
blue
and
white
chintz
was
used
for
the
hangings
and
bed
coverings.
Everything
else
in
the
room
was
white
except
the
thick
cream
rug
with
its
border
of
blue
and
rose
and
buff,
and
the
candlesticks
and
appliques
which
repeated
those
colors.
There
is
a
chintz
I
love
to
use
called
the
Green
Feather
chintz.
It
is
most
decorative
in
design
and
color,
and
such
an
aristocratic
sort
of
chintz
you
can
use
it
on
handsome
old
sofas
and
your
post
beds
that
would
scorn
a
more
commonplace
chintz.
Mrs.
Payne
Whitney
has
a
most
enchanting
bed
covered
with
the
Green
Feather
chintz,
one
of
those
great
beds
that
depend
entirely
on
their
hangings
for
effect,
for
not
a
bit
of
the
wooden
frame
shows.
Mrs.
Frederick
Havemeyer
has
a
similar
bed
covered
with
a
Chinoiserie
chintz.
These
great
beds
are
very
beautiful
in
large
rooms,
but
they
would
be
out
of
place
in
small
ones.
There
are
draped
beds,
however,
that
may
be
used
in
smaller
rooms.
I
am
showing
a
photograph
of
a
bedroom
in
the
Crocker
house
in
Burlingame,
California,
where
I
used
a
small
draped
bed
with
charming
effect.
This
bed
is
placed
flat
against
the
wall,
like
a
sofa,
and
the
drapery
is
adapted
from
that
of
a
Louis
XVI
room.
The
bed
is
of
gray
painted
wood,
and
the
hangings
are
of
blue
and
cream
chintz
lined
with
blue
taffetas.
I
used
the
same
idea
in
a
rose
and
blue
bedroom
in
a
New
York
house.
In
this
case,
however,
the
bed
was
painted
cream
white
and
the
large
panels
of
the
head
and
foot
boards
were
filled
with
a
rose
and
blue
chintz.
The
bedspread
was
of
deep
rose
colored
taffetas,
and
from
a
small
canopy
above
the
bed
four
curtains
of
the
rose
and
blue
chintz,
lined
with
the
taffetas,
are
pulled
to
the
four
corners
of
the
bed.
This
novel
arrangement
of
draperies
is
very
satisfactory
in
a
small
room.
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