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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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Among
the
most
enchanting
of
the
new
papers
are
the
black
and
white
ones,
fantastic
Chinese
designs
and
startling
Austrian
patterns.
Black
and
white
is
always
a
tempting
combination
to
the
decorator,
and
now
that
Josef
Hoffman,
the
great
Austrian
decorator,
has
been
working
in
black
and
white
for
a
number
of
years,
the
more
venturesome
decorators
of
France,
and
England
and
America
have
begun
to
follow
his
lead,
and
are
using
black
and
white,
and
black
and
color,
with
amazing
effect.
We
have
black
papers
patterned
in
color,
and
black
velvet
carpets,
and
white
coated
papers
sprinkled
with
huge
black
polka
dots,
and
all
manner
of
unusual
things.
It
goes
without
saying
that
much
of
this
fad
is
freakish,
but
there
is
also
much
that
is
good
enough
and
refreshing
enough
to
last.
One
can
imagine
nothing
fresher
than
a
black
and
white
scheme
in
a
bedroom,
with
a
saving
neutrality
of
gray
or
some
dull
tone
for
rugs,
and
a
brilliant
bit
of
color
in
porcelain.
There
is
no
hint
of
the
mournful
in
the
decorator's
combination
of
black
and
white:
rather,
there
is
a
naïve
quality
suggestive
of
smartness
in
a
gown,
or
chic
in
a
woman.
A
white
walled
room
with
white
woodwork
and
a
black
and
white
tiled
floor;
a
black
lacquer
bed
and
chest
of
drawers
and
chair;
glass
curtains
of
white
muslin
and
inside
ones
of
black
and
white
Hoffman
chintz;
a
splash
of
warm
orange-red
in
an
oval
rug
at
the
bedside,
if
it
be
winter,
or
a
cool
green
one
in
summer--doesn't
this
tempt
you?
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