MRS. EDEN'S HOME
The .value of a restful atmosphere as a. contrast to the stress of modern political life, accompanied by sudden and strenuous journeys across Europe, is understood by the wife of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (states the London "Daily Telegraph"). That is one reason why Mrs. Eden has chosen green for practically every room in her house in Lowers-Berkeley Street. Deep soft green brocatelle in ;a traditional church design covers the whitewood bed. ends in her bedroom, where the walls are, painted a peach shade. Bedspreads are" of peach satin outlined with old green woven braid. : There are i*wo shade's of green, pale spring leaf and malachite in the diningroom. Walls arid: carpet;-are of the former, against' which the? Chippendale table and chairs 'stand out : boldly. Curtains of velyet'.are.vpf the latter. The green in the drawing-room, furnished with pieces of several periods, Georgian, Empire, i and. Victorian, is more of an olive'shade. V-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 18
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156MRS. EDEN'S HOME Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 18
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