ROOM FURNISHINGS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1074, 13 March 1911, Page 9

ROOM FURNISHINGS.

One of the greatest gains to modem decoration is the revival of the bsautiful old-fashioned designs in. cretonnes, and that particularly satisfactory material known as taffeta (says an Australian writer). Taffeta, with a Peter Jlcyer design—Meyer ranks in Germany where William Morris ranks with us—means a fabric in .which the softest and richest tones are given in a mixture of linen and cotton, so. woven as to. rather resemble .■! a brocade.. The designs are smaller'than those with which cretonnes, till recently, made us familiar. Except in the.largest rooms, impossibly gigantic roses and enormous foliage had an annoyingly dwarfing effect. The smaller and richer designs accord far more with the modern requirements of 1 flats and bedsitting rooms. Wherever the walls are plain, figured materials can be judiciously used for hanging, while the reverse holds equally good. In a room with' buff or mushroom coloured walls: loose covers of cretonne in dull blues, with curtains to match, were recently seen. Tho modern tendency to use plain mats for floor coverings were noticeable in this room. In the majority of cases these mats are woven in two or three shades of one colour, though occasionally there is no variation from some soft rich tone of old rose, mole colour, blue, green, or brown.

Mrs. Rolleslon, Hair Specialist, has removed to more commodious rooms, 25ii Lamhton Quay (lately occupied by Messrs. Skerrett and Wylie), nearly opposite the Economic, all of which are fitted up with latest appliances as used in England and America, for Tlair and Face Treatment. Tel., 1599.-Advt.

Mis?, ft. L. Fanner, hcadn.'istress of Putney Secondary School, says that the chief 'danger of the commercial competition in which women and girls are now forced to take part is the hardening pf the character—the loss of that liumilitv of mind and gentleness of manner which alone gives dignity to womanhood.

Floral Tributes—Gifts, of rare and choice Flowers are always acceptable, for friends or relatives. Designed and arranged 'artistic emblems arc always to bo Lin at MISS MURRAY'S. Vice-Regal Florist. 30 AVillls Street. Tel. 205. Wed. din" Bouquets and designs Bent to a n j part of Dominion.—Adrt.