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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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From
the
drawing-room
you
entered
the
dining-room.
This
was
a
long
room
with
beautifully
spaced
walls,
a
high
ceiling,
and
quaint
cupboards.
The
arrangement
of
the
mirrors
around
the
cupboards
and
doors
was
unusual
and
most
decorative.
This
room
was
so
beautiful
in
itself
that
I
used
very
little
color--but
such
color!
We
never
tired
of
the
gray
and
white
and
ivory
color-scheme,
the
quiet
atmosphere
that
made
glorious
the
old
Chinese
carpet,
with
its
rose-colored
ground
and
blue-and-gold
medallions
and
border.
The
large
India-ink
sketches
set
in
the
walls
are
originals
by
Mennoyer,
the
delightful
Eighteenth
Century
artist
who
did
the
overdoors
of
the
Petit
Trianon.
The
mirror-framed
lighting
fixtures
I
brought
over
from
France.
The
dining-table
too,
was
French,
of
a
creamy
ivory-painted
wood.
The
chairs
had
insets
of
cane
of
a
deeper
tone.
The
recessed
window-seat
was
covered
with
a
soft
velvet
of
a
deep
yellow,
and
there
were
as
many
little
footstools
beside
the
window-seat
as
there
were
chairs
in
the
room.
Doesn't
everyone
long
for
a
footstool
at
table?
I
believe
that
everything
in
one's
house
should
be
comfortable,
but
one's
bedroom
must
be
more
than
comfortable:
it
must
be
intimate,
personal,
one's
secret
garden,
so
to
speak.
It
may
be
as
simple
as
a
convent
cell
and
still
have
this
quality
of
the
personality
of
its
occupant.
There
are
two
things
that
are
as
important
to
me
as
the
bed
in
the
bedrooms
that
I
furnish,
and
they
are
the
little
tables
at
the
head
of
the
bed,
and
the
lounging
chairs.
The
little
table
must
hold
a
good
reading
light,
well
shaded,
for
who
doesn't
like
to
read
in
bed?
There
must
also
be
a
clock,
and
there
really
should
be
a
telephone.
And
the
chaise-longue,
or
couch,
as
the
case
may
be,
should
be
both
comfortable
and
beautiful.
Who
hasn't
longed
for
a
comfortable
place
to
snatch
forty
winks
at
midday?
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