Garden Furniture To Bring Indoors

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 2

Garden Furniture To Bring Indoors

Time wu when a piece of garden furniture could never be mistaken for anything else. It was rugged, rough and functional.

Now a now type of furniture is evolving which la equally at home inside and out. The furniture in the sketch, which can be made by a bandy husband, comprises a sturdy low table, and what are termed in the trade "nesting stools." These are equally suitable on the patio, in a nursery, or even a sitting room. There is little garden furniture that can endure the rigours of an entire year out of doors, and much Of it te quite acceptable inside. Aluminium chairs, unbeatable for lightness, now come in new elegant shapes. There are rocking chairs, "butterfly" chain and nylon-covered folding tables. Some progressive stores in

London are importing very smart ranges of German garden furniture in white or yellow. including wbat is called a ‘‘director's ehair,** which looks far too good to languish in the garden. It must bo a highly organised household that does not, at some time or other, require one more bed than it actually has. The unexpected guest can spend a comfortable night on the latest padded collapsible bod, which folds up for easy carrying in both house and garden. If you want something really startling, why not drive two stout hooks in the livingroom walls and hang one of the latest multi-coloured hammocks? Provincial Press.