WALL TEXTURES
LEATHER, CORK, RUBBER
Wall treatments are interesting these and very varied, writes a Lon**ou correspondent. Many decorative Experts are advising light wood panels for the walls of a modern room; they make an excellent background, restful and light, for they are not dyed in any way and are not deeply polished. As an alternative, there is a new wood paper, the wood being shaved to an almost incredible thinness and mounted on to a rice paper. This goes on as easily as an ordinary paper, but gives all the efTect of genuine panelling! Leather is a rather more expensive choice for one's walls, but it has compensating advantages, for it lasts and lasts, and absorbs sound.
In the Royal Institute of British Architects' new headquarters, many of the walls are finished with leather, and they look very well indeed. Cork and rubber are also being used a good deal for walls, and again, one of the chief points in their favour is their faculty of deadening sound. Rubber has been used most successfully for nurseries and kitchens and bathrooms. Cork, besides being so discouraging toward noise, is also very warm, and for this reason is an excellent choice for iathroom floors.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 132, 30 November 1935, Page 19
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203WALL TEXTURES Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 132, 30 November 1935, Page 19
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