Colours

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28840, 10 March 1959, Page 2

Colours

MOSAICS Marble chips and mosaic tiles have formed a pattern of decoration through dim ages of civilisations, and can still be found gracing the facades and recesses of noble structures in commercial enterprise. Even in domestic design the flavour of this ancient craft can find a place. White marble chips in white polished cement for terrazzo slab fire surrounds can be most elegant, set in classic moulded plaster frames ... a costly whim but so beautiful for use in rooms of formal design. Multi-coloured mosaic tiles can face a fireplace in any room, free-form or traditional. One example has a range of bright red, ming blue, yellow, white, and brown inch-square tiles laid in black cement, against an all-red wide hearth (red tiles set in black). The fireplace wall is panelled and gloss painted black, with narrow cover mouldings squared up in white. ' For those interested, other room details are . . . side walls grey, ceiling pale blue, chairs red and black coarse weave, curtains black and white, carpet deep blue. All cabinets are bleached pine with pale blue enamel on inside surfaces.

GAUHOWAND