IN WALNUT

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21244, 16 August 1934, Page 5

IN WALNUT

ATTRACTIVE FURNITURE REVIVAL OF VOGUE There is a marked revival in the use of walnut furniture. Many of the finest modern pieces are made in this beautiful wood. Its mellow colour makes it suitable to almost any background, but it is never happier than in combination with green. A recently-inspected bedroom provides an excellent example of this. Creamy panelled walls throw into relief the walnut furniture, which includes an attractive modern tallboy, with ebony drawer knobs and borders, and one of the new octagonal book tables. The curtains and carpets m this room are all green, while the paintwork is deep ivory. Another successful example of the walnut vogue combined with given is a delightfully restful bedroom, in which the decorative grain of the wood is thrown into prominence by the use of fiat, pale green surfaces all round it. Apple green walls are exactly matched by a laccy bedspread, which, in its turn, "goes" with inner window curtains, which are made up of the same material. This use of pale green lace hangings is 'especially effective, as the room is a sunny one, and the light is becomingly softened by the green inner curtains. Green is, indeed, a particularly adaptable colour in this respect, as a shade with a good proportion of yellow in it —"lettuce" rather than "apple"—is equally adaptable, and, used in the form of coloured lace hangings, gives an effect of sunshine to the chilliest window. The owner of the room described was gradually collecting the walnut furniture, and had not yet bought a dressing table to match the other pieces. But the substitute was so charming that one did not notice any omission. Indeed, it seemed highly probable that she would never have the heart to dismantle the attractively drapped affair which took the place of the walnut toilet table which should have completed the suite. The outer curtains in this room were of plain apple green material lined with deep cream, and a green glass toilet set and ivory brushes adorned the lacedraped dressing table.