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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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If
you
have
mahogany
things,
you
will
require
a
little
mahogany
table
at
the
head
of
the
couch
to
hold
a
reading-lamp--a
sewing-table
would
be
excellent.
A
pie-crust
or
turn
top
table
for
tea,
or
possibly
a
"nest"
of
three
small
mahogany
tables.
A
writing
table
or
book
table
built
on
very
simple
lines
will
be
needed
also.
If
you
happen
to
have
a
conventional
writing-desk,
a
gate-leg
table
would
be
charming
for
books
and
things.
The
wing
chair
and
willow
chairs,
and
the
hour-glass
Chinese
chairs,
will
go
beautifully
with
mahogany
things
or
with
oak
things.
If
most
of
your
furniture
is
to
be
oak,
be
sure
and
select
well-made
pieces
stained
a
soft
brown
and
waxed.
Oak
furniture
is
delightful
when
it
isn't
too
heavy.
A
large
gate-leg
table
of
dark
brown
oak
is
one
of
the
most
beautiful
tables
in
the
world.
With
it
you
would
need
a
bench
of
oak,
with
cane
or
rush
seat;
a
small
octagonal,
or
butterfly
oak
table
for
your
couch
end,
and
one
or
two
Windsor
chairs.
Oak
demands
simple,
wholesome
surroundings,
just
as
mahogany
permits
a
certain
feminine
elegance.
Oak
furniture
invites
printed
linens
and
books
and
brass
and
copper
and
pewter
and
gay
china.
While
mahogany
may
be
successfully
used
with
such
things,
it
may
also
be
used
with
brocade
and
fragile
china
and
carved
chairs.
Use
chintzes
in
your
apartment,
if
you
wish,
but
do
not
risk
the
light
ones
in
living-rooms.
A
chintz
or
printed
linen
of
some
good
design
on
a
ground
of
mauve,
blue,
gray
or
black
will
decorate
your
apartment
adequately,
if
you
make
straight
side
curtains
of
it,
and
cover
one
chair
and
possibly
a
stool
with
it.
Don't
carry
it
too
far.
If
your
rooms
are
small,
have
your
side
curtains
of
coarse
linen
or
raw
silk
in
dull
blue,
orange,
brown,
or
whatever
color
you
choose
as
the
key
color
of
your
room,
and
then
select
a
dark
chintz
with
your
chosen
color
dominant
in
its
design,
and
cover
your
one
big
chair
with
that.
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