Mary Borden's Home

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 47, 25 February 1933, Page 21

Mary Borden's Home

That popular novelist, ]Viary Bordeii (Mrs. Spears),, was one of the first people to make the fashionable trek to Westminster from Mayfair, and her house off Smith Square, with, its copperfloored dining-room, became famous (states an overseas writer). Can it betlie. tide is on the turn, since Brigadier-General and Mrs. Spears are now back in Mayfair again, and established in a delightful. little home in John Street. An unusual combination of pink, dark chestnut-brown, and apple-green has been used by Mrs. Spears in her bedroom in the new home. A patchwork quilt in which all the pieces form a definite artistic pattern covers a low divan bed, with a miniature refectory table in limed oak at the bedfoot for books and newspapers. Apple-green lias been usecL, too, for the dining-room walls, on one of which nangs a marvellous Chinese picture brought back by Mr. Somerset Maugham for Mrs. Spears. It represents Chinese mandarins in a bos at a local theatre. To harmonise with the picture are golden yellow lacquered chairs and dining table, the latter having a groen marbled top. In ths library ''panelled" with paint to resemble stripped pine, the ceiling is painted an elusive dusty- blue to match the painted French. furniture that Mrs. Spears found in Pans. Blue ana yellow Chinese rugs are on the drawing-room ioor, where the pictures are all painted on glass. Chinese artists who did them worked from behind the picture—details first, outline last—and walls and curtains have been kept, a soft yellow beige. Cushiions in fondant tones of blue, pink green, and yellow are heaped on a beigo-coverea settee.