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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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In
the
Guinness
house
in
New
York
there
is
a
little
hallway
wainscoted
in
white
with
a
green
trellis
covering
the
wall
space
above.
Against
this
simple
trellis--it
is
really
a
lattice--a
number
of
plaster
casts
are
hung.
In
one
corner
an
old
marble
bowl
holds
a
grapevine,
which
has
been
trained
over
the
walls.
The
floor
is
of
white
tiles,
with
a
narrow
Greek
border
of
black
and
white.
This
decoration
of
a
little
hall
might
be
copied
very
easily.
The
architects
are
building
nowadays
many
houses
that
have
a
sun-room,
or
conservatory,
or
breakfast
room.
The
smallest
cottage
may
have
a
little
breakfast
room
done
in
green
and
white
lattice,
with
green
painted
furniture
and
simple
flower
boxes.
I
have
had
furniture
of
the
most
satisfactory
designs
made
for
my
trellis
rooms.
Green
painted
wood
with
cane
insets
seems
most
suitable
for
the
small
rooms,
and
the
marbles
of
the
old
trellised
Temples
d'Amour
may
be
replaced
by
cement
benches
in
our
modern
trellis
pavillions.
There
is
so
much
of
modern
furniture
that
is
refreshing
in
line
and
color,
and
adapted
to
these
sun-rooms.
There
is
a
desk
made
by
Aitchen,
a
notable
furniture
designer
in
London,
which
I
have
used
in
a
sun-room.
The
desk
is
painted
white,
and
is
decorated
with
heavy
lines
of
dark
green.
The
drawer
front
and
the
doors
of
the
little
cupboard
are
filled
with
cane.
The
knobs
are
of
green.
This
desk
would
be
nice
in
a
white
writing-room
in
a
summer
cottage,
though
it
was
planned
for
a
trellis
room.
It
could
be
used
as
a
dressing
table,
with
a
bench
or
chair
of
white,
outlined
in
green,
and
a
good
mirror
in
white
and
green
frame.
Another
desk
I
have
made
is
called
a
jardiniere
table,
and
was
designed
for
Mrs.
Ogden
Armour's
garden
room
at
Lake
Forest.
The
desk,
or
table,
is
painted
gray,
with
faint
green
decorations.
At
each
end
of
the
long
top
there
is
a
sunken
zinc-lined
box
to
hold
growing
plants.
Between
the
flower
boxes
there
is
the
usual
arrangement
of
the
desk
outfit,
blotter
pad,
paper
rack,
ink
pots,
and
so
forth.
The
spaces
beneath
the
flower
boxes
are
filled
with
shelves
for
books
and
magazines.
This
idea
is
thoroughly
practicable
for
any
garden
room,
and
is
so
simple
that
it
could
be
constructed
by
any
man
who
knows
how
to
use
tools.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
