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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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I
have
a
fine
Eighteenth
Century
banquette
in
my
drawing-room,
the
frame
being
carved
and
gilded
and
the
seat
covered
with
Venetian
red
velvet.
You
will
find
these
gilded
stools
all
over
England.
There
are
a
number
at
Hampton
Court
Palace.
At
Hardwick
there
are
both
long
and
short
stools,
carved
with
the
dolphin's
scroll
and
covered
with
elaborate
stuffs.
The
older
the
English
house,
the
more
stools
are
in
evidence.
In
the
early
Sixteenth
Century
joint
stools
were
used
in
every
room.
In
the
bedrooms
they
served
the
purposes
of
small
tables
and
chairs
as
well.
There
are
ever
so
many
fine
old
walnut
stools
and
the
lower
stools
used
for
bed-steps
to
be
bought
in
London
shops
that
make
a
specialty
of
old
English
furniture,
and
reproductions
of
them
may
be
bought
in
the
better
American
shops.
I
often
wonder
why
we
do
not
see
more
bedside
stools.
They
are
so
convenient,
even
though
the
bed
be
only
moderately
high
from
the
floor.
Many
of
mine
are
only
six
inches
high,
about
the
height
of
a
fat
floor
cushion.
Which
reminds
me:
the
floor
cushion,
made
of
the
same
velvet
made
for
carpeting,
is
a
modern
luxury
we
can't
afford
to
ignore.
Lately
I
have
seen
such
beautiful
ones,
about
three
feet
long
and
one
foot
wide,
covered
with
tapestry,
with
great
gold
tassels
at
the
corners.
The
possibilities
of
the
floor
cushion
idea
are
limitless.
They
take
the
place
of
the
usual
footstool
in
front
of
the
boudoir
easy
chair,
or
beside
the
day
bed
or
chaise-longue,
or
beside
the
large
bed,
for
that
matter.
They
are
no
longer
unsanitary,
because
with
vacuum
cleaners
they
may
be
kept
as
clean
as
chair
cushions.
They
may
be
made
to
fit
into
almost
any
room.
I
saw
a
half
dozen
of
them
in
a
dining-room,
recently,
small
square
hard
ones,
covered
with
the
gold
colored
velvet
of
the
carpet.
They
were
not
more
than
four
or
five
inches
thick,
but
that
is
the
ideal
height
for
an
under-the-table
cushion.
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it.
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