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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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The
terrace
is
built
of
tiles
on
a
cement
foundation.
Vines
are
trained
over
square
column-like
frames
of
wire,
erected
at
regular
intervals.
Between
the
edge
of
the
terrace
and
the
smooth
green
lawn
there
is
a
mass
of
blue
flowers.
We
have
a
number
of
willow
chairs
and
old
stone
tables
here,
and
you
can
appreciate
the
joy
of
having
breakfast
and
tea
on
the
terrace
with
the
birds
singing
in
the
boughs
of
the
trees.
I
have
written
at
length
in
the
other
chapters
of
my
ideas
of
house-furnishing,
and
in
this
one
I
want
to
give
you
my
ideas
of
garden
guilding.
True,
we
had
the
old
garden
plan
to
work
from,
and
trees
two
hundred
years
old,
and
old
vine-covered
walls.
Who
couldn't
accomplish
a
perfect
garden
with
such
essentials,
people
said!
Well,
it
wasn't
so
easy
as
it
seems.
You
can
select
furnishings
for
a
room
with
fair
success,
because
you
can
see
and
feel
textures,
and
colors,
and
the
lines
of
the
furniture
and
curtains.
But
gardens
are
different--you
cannot
make
grass
and
flowers
grow
just
so
on
short
notice!
You
plant
and
dig
and
plant
again,
before
things
grow
as
you
have
visualized
them.
There
was
a
double
ring
of
trees
in
one
corner
of
our
domain,
enclosing
the
salle
de
verdure,
or
outdoor
drawing-room.
In
the
center
of
this
enchanted
circle
there
was
a
statue
by
Clodion,
a
joyous
nymph,
holding
a
baby
faun
in
her
arms.
There
were
several
old
stone
benches
under
the
trees
that
must
have
known
the
secrets
of
the
famous
ladies
of
the
Eighteenth
Century
courts.
The
salle
de
verdure
looked
just
as
it
did
when
the
little
daughters
of
Louis
XV
came
here
to
have
their
afternoon
cakes
and
tea,
so
we
did
not
try
to
change
this
bit
of
our
garden.
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