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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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Painted
walls,
and
walls
hung
with
tapestries
and
leather,
are
not
possible
to
many
of
us,
but
they
are
the
most
magnificent
of
wall
treatments.
I
know
a
wonderful
library
with
walls
hung
in
squares
of
Spanish
leather,
a
cold
northern
room
that
merits
such
a
brilliant
wall
treatment.
The
primitive
colors
of
the
Cordova
leather
workers,
with
gold
and
crimson
dominant,
glow
from
the
deep
shadows.
Spanish
and
Italian
furniture
and
fine
old
velvets
and
brocades
furnish
this
room.
The
same
sort
of
room
invites
wood
paneling
and
tapestry,
whereas
the
ideal
room
for
painted
walls
in
a
lighter
key
is
the
ballroom,
or
some
such
large
apartment.
I
once
decorated
a
ballroom
with
Pillement
panels,
copied
from
a
beautiful
Eighteenth
Century
room,
and
so
managed
to
bring
a
riot
of
color
and
decoration
into
a
large
apartment.
The
ground
of
the
paneling
was
deep
yellow,
and
all
the
little
birds
and
flowers
surrounding
the
central
design
were
done
in
the
very
brightest,
strongest
colors
imaginable.
The
various
panels
had
quaint
little
scenes
of
the
same
Chinese
flavor.
Of
course,
in
such
an
apartment
as
a
ballroom
there
would
be
nothing
to
break
into
the
decorative
plan
of
the
painted
walls,
and
the
unbroken
polished
floor
serves
only
to
throw
the
panels
into
their
proper
prominence.
Painted
walls,
when
done
in
some
such
broad
and
daring
manner,
are
very
wonderful,
but
they
should
not
be
attempted
by
the
amateur,
or,
indeed,
by
an
expert
in
a
room
that
will
be
crowded
with
furniture,
and
curtains,
and
rugs.
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