BAMBOO FASHION REVIVED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1937, Page 16

BAMBOO FASHION REVIVED

Although bamboo makes a feature in many gardens and Chinese drawings of it show the beauty of its joints and angles, it has continued in this country to suggest the cheapest sort of lodging-house furniture and, in particular, those stands upon which ferns swing gloomily in pots, says an English writer. But bamboo is coming into its own again, and on the new liner Orcades it was used in conjunction with other woods in the construction of a table. That is to say, it was treated without prejudice and took its place together with many other foreign and British woods. In Paris a new use has been found for it which is a little suggestive of some straw "wallpaper" which was seen there some years ago. The bam' boo —the finer stems of it—is split, fastened together side by side, and used for walls and ceilings in its natural colouring in a chalet designed for winter sports. The pale colouring, broken up by the irregular surface, is pleasing, and the downward lines of the bamboo have a slightly country appearance which also seems to meet the case. Also, the slightly-polished surface of the bamboo, broken up by its knots, looks gay and interesting. The whole room is treated in this way, with the exception of the corner for the bed, where the walls are a plain yellowish colour which corresponds with the bamboo and throws it up into relief. The furniture is of plain oak, which is one more instance of the prevalent fashion for throwing together woods which offer the greatest contrasts.

The correct place to hang your mascots, such as horseshoes and fourleafed clovers, is on your belt, at the side, and one designer pins two amusing little nigger heads at the side of the hat and another in the lapel of the coat,