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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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Given
plenty
of
chairs
and
sofas,
and
a
few
small
tables
to
hold
lights
and
flowers,
you
will
need
very
little
other
furniture
in
the
drawing-room.
You
will
need
a
writing-table,
but
a
very
small
and
orderly
one.
The
drawing
room
desk
may
be
very
elegant
in
design
and
equipment,
for
it
must
be
a
part
of
the
decoration
of
the
room,
and
it
must
be
always
immaculate
for
the
visitor
who
wants
to
write
a
note.
The
members
of
the
family
are
supposed
to
use
their
own
desks,
leaving
this
one
for
social
emergencies.
A
good
desk
is
a
godsend
in
a
drawing-room,
it
makes
a
room
that
is
usually
cold
and
formal
at
once
more
livable
and
more
intimate.
In
my
own
drawing-room
I
have
a
small
French
writing-table
placed
near
a
window,
so
that
the
light
falls
over
one's
left
shoulder.
The
small
black
lacquer
desks
that
are
now
being
reproduced
from
old
models
would
be
excellent
desks
for
drawing-rooms,
because
they
not
only
offer
service,
as
all
furniture
should,
but
are
beautiful
in
themselves.
Many
of
the
small
tables
of
walnut
and
mahogany
that
are
sold
as
dressing-tables
might
be
used
as
writing-tables
in
formal
rooms,
if
the
mirrors
were
eliminated.
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