GEORGIAN BLUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 76, 30 March 1935, Page 17

GEORGIAN BLUE.

DUKE CREATES COLOUR. (By JOAN LITTLEFIELD.) The latest vogue in home decoration, tile use of tlie new "distressed" or "offwhite" shade, has been adopted by the Duchess of Kent. The panelled walls are being painted off-white, and the panels themselves picked out in "rubbed" silver, a colour that also appears in the stitched border of the off-white satin curtain fabric. The stitchery, specially designed by the upholsterer to the Prince of Wales, in a falling leaf and raindrop pattern to imitate quilting, is. carried through to the white woollen backing of the satin. The same stitched satin is covering the curved head of the simple divan-type bed that is being made for the Duchess, while 011 the bed itself will be the lovely "distressed" white quilted velvet bedspread and pillow eases that were a wedding present to the Duke and Duchess from the ladies' council of the Royal School of Needlework. The Duchess' carpet is deep prune-brown.

The Duchess is very keen 011 the vogue of mirror glass in decoration, and has arranged that the alcove containing her divan day-bed shall have all-mirror walls. This is opposite the wall of mirror glass between the windows, 111 front of which her wliite-painted dressing table will stand. The bathroom leading out of the Duchess' bedroom is carried out in black and silver, with painted mirror walls, two hidden cupboards for perfumes and bath-salts, and supple metallic, silversilk waterproof curtains. The Duke of Kent is likely to create a new colour —"Georgian Blue" —by his choice of an off-blue, which is neither pale blue nor palp, green, for the walls of liis bedroom, where his favourite furniture from York House is being installed. Here again mirror glass is used to great effect for the three built-in clothes cupboards in three corners of the room". The fourth corner leads to a- simple black-and-white tiled bathroom and shower. The cool stucco paint of the hall, reminiscent of an Italian palazzo, will also be used in the Duke's ground floor study.