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The House in Good Taste
·
Elsie De Wolfe
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Our
modern
use
of
indoor
fountains
is
perfectly
legitimate:
we
use
them
to
bring
the
atmosphere
of
outdoors
in.
In
country
houses
we
use
fountains
in
our
gardens,
but
in
the
city
we
have
no
gardens,
and
so
we
are
very
wise
to
bring
in
the
outdoor
things
that
make
our
lives
a
little
more
gay
and
informal.
The
more
suggestive
of
out-of-doors
the
happier
is
the
effect
of
the
sun
room.
Occasionally
one
sees
a
rare
house
where
a
glass
enclosed
garden
opens
from
one
of
the
living-rooms.
There
is
a
house
in
Nineteenth
Street
that
has
such
an
enclosed
garden,
built
around
a
wall
fountain.
The
garden
opens
out
of
the
great
two-storied
music-room.
Lofty
windows
flank
a
great
door,
and
fill
the
end
of
the
room
with
a
luminous
composition
of
leaded
glass.
Through
the
door
you
enter
the
garden,
with
its
tiled
floor,
its
glass
ceiling,
and
its
low
brick
retaining
walls.
The
wall
fountain
is
placed
exactly
in
front
of
the
great
door,
and
beneath
it
there
is
a
little
semi-circular
pool
bordered
with
plants
and
glittering
with
goldfish.
Evergreens
are
banked
against
the
brick
walls,
and
flat
reliefs
are
hung
just
under
the
glass
ceiling.
The
garden
is
quite
small,
but
takes
its
place
as
an
important
part
of
the
room.
It
rivals
in
interest
the
massive
Gothic
fireplace,
with
its
huge
logs
and
feudal
fire
irons.
The
better
silversmiths
are
doing
much
to
encourage
the
development
of
indoor
fountains.
They
display
the
delightful
fountains
of
our
young
American
sculptors,
fountains
that
would
make
any
garden
room
notable.
There
are
so
many
of
these
small
bronze
fountains,
with
Pan
piping
his
irresistible
tune
of
outdoors;
children
playing
with
frogs
or
geese
or
lizards
or
turtles;
gay
little
figures
prancing
in
enchanted
rings
of
friendly
beasties.
Why
don't
we
make
use
of
them?
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